American mathematician, working in statistics and probability theory, and magician.
Standford University webpage.
On representation theory and geometric group theory in probability theory and statistics (Cayley distance, Kendall distance, …):
Persi Diaconis, Group Representations in Probability and Statistics, IMS Lecture Notes Monogr. Ser., 11: 198pp. (1988) (jstor:i397389, ISBN: 0940600145, pdf)
Persi Diaconis, Phil Hanlon, Section 4 of: Eigen Analysis for Some Examples of the Metropolis Algorithm, in Donald Richards (ed.) Hypergeometric Functions on Domains of Positivity, Jack Polynomials, and Applications, Contemporary Mathematics Vol. 138, AMS 1992 (doi:10.1090/conm/138, EFS NSF 392, pdf)
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