Steve's influence on my work

Steve has shaped the lives and careers of many people within and outside the statistics community, over the course of his long career. I am very fortunate to be one of those people. Steve was unique in his ability to forge connections between seemingly unrelated fields. He was the “match maker” — connecting people and research areas as varied as privacy and statistical inference, algebra and statistics, copulas and log-linear models, sampling and design of experiments, networks and contingency tables and so on.