PhD Alumni 1970-1979

Karl Kuen-Feng Lin

Advisor: Jan Kmenta (Econ & Stats)

Dissertation: Regression Estimation Under Ill-Conditioned Data Structure

Last Known Position: Mathematical Statistician & Team Lead, U.S. Food & Drug Administration

Paul Sampson

Advisor: Edward Rothman

Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Shape with Conic Sections and Elliptical Distributions on a Hypersphere

Last Known Position: Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

Wen-Chen Chen

Advisor: Bruce Hill

Dissertation: On Zipf's Law

Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

John McKenzie

Advisor: William Ericson

Dissertation: Analysis of Paired-Comparison Data by Two Models Involving Ties and by Generalized Rank Correlation Coefficients

Last Known Position: Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Babson College 

Tony Chak-Leung Tai

Advisor: Norman Starr

Dissertation: Optimal and Adaptive Stopping for a Generalized Ehrenfest Urn Model

Last Known Position: Honorary President, The Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong

Fred Bookstein

Advisor: William Ericson, Arnold Kluge (Co-Advisor)

Dissertation: The Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change

Last Known Position: Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

Ronald Butler

Advisor: Edward Rothman

Dissertation: Cross-Validatory Predictive Intervals, the Bayes Character of Subset Selection Techniques, and Robust Adaptive Prediction

Last Known Position: C.F. Frensley Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistical Sciences, Southern Methodist University

Edrisa Bangura

Advisor: Bruce Hill, Michael Woodroofe (Co-Advisor)

Dissertation: A Design Problem in the Bayesian Estimation of the Treatment Effects in the One-Way Balanced Fixed Effects Model

Last Known Position: Unknown

Shelley Lynn Rasmussen Bartold

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: A Bayesian Approach to a Problem in Sequential Estimation

Last Known Position: Retired; Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts - Lowell

Lih-Wen Huang

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Asymptotic Distribution and Applications of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in the Independent Not Identically Distributed Case

Last Known Position: Unknown

Olajide Abe

Advisor: Edward Rothman

Dissertation: Stochastic Models for Chemical Kinetics and Related Processes

Last Known Position: Unknown

Ray Faith

Advisor: Richard Olshen (Stanford University), Michael Woodroofe (Co-Advisor)

Dissertation: Minimax Bayes Set and Point Estimators of a Multivariate Normal Mean

Last Known Position: Retired; Research Computing Manager, Sloan School of Management; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Fortus

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Approximations to Bayesian Sequential Tests of Composite Hypotheses

Last Known Position: Turf Writer & Editor, New Orleans Times-Picayune

Romulo Virola

Advisor: Hans U. Gerber (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Dissertation: Discounted Optimal Stopping for a Weighted Process with Compound Poisson and Diffusion Components

Last Known Position: Retired; Secretary General, National Statistical Coordination Board

Albert Liebetrau

Advisor: Edward Rothman 

Dissertation: Estimation of the Second-Order Properties of a Weakly-Stationary Point-Process and Related Tests of Randomness

Last Known Position: Batelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories

Robert Wardrop

Advisor: Norman Starr

Dissertation: Optimal Stopping Based on Catch Times: The Increasing Failure Rate Case

Last Known Position: Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Howard Fetell

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation in Censored Samples in a Non-Regular Case

Last Known Position: Unknown

Martin Weinrich

Advisor: William Ericson

Dissertation: Linear-Regression, Generalized Exchangeability and Bayesian Optimal Stratified Sampling Design

Last Known Position:  Retired; Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics & Nursing, University of South Carolina

Connie Shapiro

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Bayesian Classification

Last Known Position: Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics & Probability, Michigan State University