David H. Freedman is a renowned author and journalist, known for his expertise in a wide range of subjects including medicine, obesity, and technology. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and Inc. Magazine, and also contributes to Scientific American, The New York Times, Discover, Newsweek, Science, Forbes, Self, The Boston Globe, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, and Men's Health, among many others. Freedman has established himself as a prolific writer, with a long list of publications to his name. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
In contrast to the living author mentioned above, there is also a mathematician and statistician named David H. Freedman who was born on March 5, 1939, in Montreal, Canada. Freedman was a distinguished mathematical statistician and author of over 200 articles and six books. He was a Canadian citizen by nationality but lived in various parts of America due to his statistical work. Initially, Freedman worked as a statistics professor at the University of California in Berkeley.
Freedman was known for his work on a wide range of research topics, including the analysis of martingale inequalities, de Finetti's theorem, sampling, Markov processes, and procedures of testing and evaluation of models. He later published extensive works on methods of causal interference and statistical model behaviors under non-standard situations. One example of this research work is the behavior of regression models while dealing with data from random experiments. Freedman passed away on October 17, 2008, in Berkeley, California, at the age of 70.