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John Charles Gittins (* 1938) ist ein britischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Stochastik befasst. Gittins war 1961 bis 1964 Wissenschaftler in Operations Research in der Steel Company of Wales in Port Talbot. 1967 bis 1974 war er Assistant Director of Research (Management Studies) im Department of Engineering der Universität Cambridge. 1967 bis 2005 war er University Lecturer in Statistik an der University of Oxford, davon sechs Jahre als Fakultätsvorstand, und Senior Mathematics Tutor am Keble College in Oxford. 1992 erhielt er einen D.Sc. in Oxford und 1996 erhielt er dort den Professoren-Titel. Er wurde 1968 an der University of Wales bei Dennis Lindley promoviert (Optimal resource allocation in chemical research). Für die Bestimmung des optimalen Stopp-Zeitpunkts zum Beispiel von klinischen Tests von Medikamenten oder dem Spiel an Automaten führte er 1979 den Gittins-Index ein. Gittins erhielt 1981 den Rollo-Davidson-Preis und erhielt 1984 die Guy Medal in Silber der Royal Statistical Society. (de)
John Charles Gittins (born 1938) is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University. He is renowned as the developer of the "Gittins index", which is used for sequential decision-making, especially in research and development in the pharmaceutical industry. He has research interests in applied probability, decision analysis and optimal decisions, including optimal stopping and stochastic optimization. Gittins was an Assistant Director of Research at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University from 1967 to 1974. Then he was a lecturer at Oxford University from 1975 to 2005 and head of the Department of Statistics there for 6 years. In 1992, Oxford University awarded him the degree Doctor of Science (D. Sci.). In 1996 he became a Professor of Statistics at Oxford University. He has been awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize (1982) for early-career probabilists, and the Guy Medal in Silver (1984). (en)

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John Charles Gittins (* 1938) ist ein britischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Stochastik befasst. Gittins war 1961 bis 1964 Wissenschaftler in Operations Research in der Steel Company of Wales in Port Talbot. 1967 bis 1974 war er Assistant Director of Research (Management Studies) im Department of Engineering der Universität Cambridge. 1967 bis 2005 war er University Lecturer in Statistik an der University of Oxford, davon sechs Jahre als Fakultätsvorstand, und Senior Mathematics Tutor am Keble College in Oxford. 1992 erhielt er einen D.Sc. in Oxford und 1996 erhielt er dort den Professoren-Titel. (de)
John Charles Gittins (born 1938) is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University. He is renowned as the developer of the "Gittins index", which is used for sequential decision-making, especially in research and development in the pharmaceutical industry. He has research interests in applied probability, decision analysis and optimal decisions, including optimal stopping and stochastic optimization. (en)

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