My Ph. D. thesis has been unavailable except by interlibrary loan from the University of Washington library because I stupidly deleted the original PostScript version years ago thinking I could recreate it if I ever wanted to, but after LaTeX2e came in, I no longer could.
There is some good stuff in it that has never been published. Several people have asked me for copies over the years and we had to make do with photocopies. I am now intending to publish a bit more of it, and hence have finally recreated it. This required installing LaTeX 2.09 and redoing all the figures, which were not valid Encapsulated PostScript.
Unfortunately, LaTeX 2.09 installed on top of a modern TeX with modern computer modern fonts does not paginate exactly like the installation I used in 1990 at UW. Thus the page numbers are not those of the original. Anyone citing anything in the PDF linked below should not cite page numbers. The text, however, is unchanged. Every word or symbol and every section, theorem, equation, figure, or table number is as in the original.
The URL below will be permanent, so this thesis can be cited as follows.
Charles J. Geyer (1990).
Likelihood and Exponential Families.
Ph. D. Thesis, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
http://www.stat.umn.edu/geyer/thesis/th.pdf