University of Minnesota
School of Statistics

FACULTY

There are presently 13 full professors,3 associate professors, 3 assistant professors and 2 emeritus professors in the School of Statistics, in addition to 3 outside members of the graduate faculty.

In the School of Statistics, 9 faculty members are Fellows of the IMS, 12 are Fellows of the ASA, and 10 have been elected to membership in the ISI. Most faculty members are or have been editors or associate editors of major journals. In addition, several have been nominated for, or are the recipients of, awards for excellence in teaching.

Administrators

Director, School of Statistics Prof. Glen D. Meeden
Director, Statistical Consulting Service Prof. Sanford Weisberg
Director of Graduate Studies Prof. Gary W. Oehlert
Director of Undergraduate Studies Prof. Ronald C. Pruitt

The Faculty

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Name Addresses and Phone Research Interests
Christopher Bingham 372 FordH and 146E ClaOff
612-625-1024 and 612-625-7023
kb@stat.umn.edu
Directional Data Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Chronobiometry, Statistical Computing
Kathryn M. Chaloner 381 FordH
612-626-0356
kathryn@stat.umn.edu
Bayesian Statistics, Experimental Design, Clinical Trials, AIDS Research
R. Dennis Cook 366 FordH and 146B ClaOff
612-625-1062 and 612-625-7732
dennis@stat.umn.edu
Experimental Design, Linear and Nonlinear Models, Regression Diagnostics, Graphical Methods, Population Genetics
James M. Dickey 342 FordH
612-625-6622
dickey@stat.umn.edu
Bayesian Statistics, Expert-opinion Probability Modeling, Smoothing Methods, Foundations of Inference
Morris L. Eaton 367 FordH
612-625-7515
eaton@stat.umn.edu
Multivariate Analysis, Probability Inequalities, Decision Theory, Bayesian Inference, Prediction
Seymour Geisser 313A FordH and 312 FordH
612-625-4005
geisser@stat.umn.edu
Bayesian Inference, Model Selection, Predictivism, Sample Reuse, Biomedical Applications, Diagnostics
Charles Geyer 356 FordH
612-625-8511
charlie@stat.umn.edu
Constrained Maximum Likelihood, Monte Carlo Likelihood, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Statistical Genetics
Birgit Grund 383 FordH
612-624-8076
birgit@stat.umn.edu
Nonparametric Curve Estimation, Kernel Smoothing, AIDS Clinical trials
Douglas M. Hawkins 357 FordH
612-624-4166
doug@stat.umn.edu
Quality Improvement, Case Diagnostics, Chemometrics
Tiefeng Jiang 365 FordH
612-624-3850
tjiang@stat.umn.edu
Bioinformatics, large deviations, Chen-Stein method and asymptotics of statistics.
Galin Jones 347 FordH
612-624-8862
galin@stat.umn.edu
Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology. Generalized Linear Mixed Models. Applications in biological and environmental settings.
Kinley Larntz
"Emeritus"
392 FordH
612-625-5303
kinley@stat.umn.edu
Categorical Data, Experimental Design, Computer-Intensive Methods, Medical Applications
Bernard W. Lindgren
"Emeritus"
392 FordH
612-625-5303
bernie@stat.umn.edu
Statistical Education, General Theory
Frank B. Martin 146C ClaOff and 368 FordH
612-625-4214 and 612-625-4897
fbm@stat.umn.edu
Experimental Design, Analysis of Variance Procedures, Finite Population Sampling
Glen D. Meeden 347 FordH
612-625-8321
glen@stat.umn.edu
Bayesian Inference, Decision Theory, Finite Population Sampling
Gary W. Oehlert 384 FordH
612-625-1557
gary@stat.umn.edu
Data Analysis, Environmental Trend Analysis, Nonparametric Regression
Ronald C. Pruitt 355 FordH
612-625-6505
ronp@stat.umn.edu
Nonparametrics, Survival Analysis
Peihua Qiu 389 FordH
612-625-5819
qiu@stat.umn.edu
Nonparametric Curve / Surface Fitting, Image Processing, Survival Analysis and Reliability, Statistical Applications
William D. Sudderth 320 FordH
612-625-2801
bill@stat.umn.edu
Probability Theory, Stochastic Games, Foundations of Statistics
Luke Tierney 385 FordH
612-625-7843
luke@stat.umn.edu
Reliability Models, Inference, Approximate Bayesian Methods, Statistical Computing, Dynamic Graphics
Sanford Weisberg 362 FordH and 146H ClaOff
612-625-8355 and 612-625-8777
sandy@stat.umn.edu
Regression and Modeling, Diagnostics, Graphical Methods, Computing

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