Bruce George Lindsay (March 7, 1947 – May 5, 2015) was an American statistician best known for his contributions to mixture modeling and likelihood theory.

Lindsay was born in 1947 in The Dalles, Oregon. He has earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Oregon in 1969 and a Ph.D. in biomathematics from the University of Washington in 1978.^[1] Between his undergraduate and graduate studies he has served in the U.S. Coast Guard for four years during the Vietnam War.^[2] He joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1979, heading the Department of Statistics in 1998–2000 and 2006–2012 and rising to the rank of Eberly Chair in Statistics in 2012.^[1] He was also a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, the Yale University in 1990, and North Carolina State University in 2004–2005.^[1] He was elected to be a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1987, of the Guggenheim Foundation in 1996, and of the American Statistical Association in 1998.^[1]

• Lindsay, Bruce G. "Mixture models: theory, geometry and applications." NSF-CBMS regional conference series in probability and statistics. Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, 1995.
• Lindsay, Bruce G. "The geometry of mixture likelihoods: a general theory." The Annals of Statistics 11.1 (1983): 86–94.
• Lindsay, Bruce G. "Composite likelihood methods." Contemporary Mathematics 80.1 (1988): 221–39.
• Lindsay, Bruce G. "Efficiency versus robustness: the case for minimum Hellinger distance and related methods." The annals of statistics (1994): 1081–1114.
• Lindsay, Bruce G. "The geometry of mixture likelihoods, part II: the exponential family." The Annals of Statistics 11.3 (1983): 783–792.

• Google Scholar profile
• Profile at the website of the Penn State Statistics Department
• Bruce G. Lindsay CV, February 2015
• Centre Daily Times obituary, May 10, 2015