Overview
Glenn W. Brier (1913–1998) was an American meteorologist and statistician at the US Weather Bureau, a pioneer of statistical methods in meteorology and of the verification of probabilistic forecasts.
Key Contributions / Features
- Brier score (Brier 1950): the mean-squared-error scoring rule for probability forecasts — the founding proper scoring rule for probabilistic forecast verification (Proper Scoring Rule).
- Contributions to statistical meteorology and weather-forecast verification methodology.
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