Agresti · Meng Agresti Eds. Alan Agresti · Xiao-Li Meng Editors Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics DepartmentsStatistics in the U.S. Rising of Academic The in Numbers: Strength Statistics Departments in the U.S. Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. Alan Agresti • Xiao-Li Meng Editors Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. 123 Editors Alan Agresti Xiao-Li Meng Department of Statistics Department of Statistics University of Florida Harvard University Gainesville, FL Cambridge, MA USA USA ISBN 978-1-4614-3648-5 ISBN 978-1-4614-3649-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012942702 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 This work is subject to copyright. 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Contents Statistics as an Academic Discipline .......................... 1 Alan Agresti and Xiao-Li Meng Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department ............... 9 Margaret L. Smykla Columbia University Statistics .............................. 27 Tian Zheng and Zhiliang Ying Biometrics and Statistical Science at Cornell ................... 39 James G. Booth and Martin T. Wells The Florida State University Statistics Department............... 51 Jayaram Sethuraman and Frederick W. Leysieffer The Department of Statistics at The George Washington University ................................... 65 Hosam M. Mahmoud, Joseph L. Gastwirth, John Lachin III and Reza Modarres Harvard University Department of Biostatistics ................. 77 Nan Laird and Marvin Zelen 55 Years of Harvard Statistics: Stories, Snapshots, and Statistics........................................... 91 Xiao-Li Meng Iowa State University Statistics Department .................... 111 Kenneth Koehler vii viii Contents Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics ............ 129 Charles Rohde, Scott L. Zeger, Karen Kruse Thomas and Karen Bandeen-Roche Kansas State University Department of Statistics ................ 143 John E. Boyer, Jr. and James W. Neill Michigan State University Department of Statistics and Probability ......................................... 155 Dennis Gilliland and James Stapleton North Carolina State University Department of Statistics .......... 169 Tom Gerig Oregon State University Statistics Department .................. 187 Daniel W. Schafer Penn State University Department of Statistics.................. 199 William Harkness, Thomas Hettmansperger, Dennis Lin and James Rosenberger Princeton University Department of Statistics (1965–1985) ......... 215 David C. Hoaglin and Karen Kafadar Purdue Statistics: A Journey Through Time.................... 229 Sanvesh Srivastava and Rebecca W. Doerge Rutgers University Department of Statistics and Biostatistics ....... 243 Joseph Naus Southern Methodist University Department of Statistical Science ..................................... 257 Richard F. Gunst, William R. Schucany and Wayne A. Woodward Stanford University Department of Statistics ................... 269 Ingram Olkin and Guenther Walther SUNY at Buffalo Department of Statistics ..................... 285 Alan Hutson Texas A&M Department of Statistics ......................... 301 Simon J. Sheather and Jennifer South Contents ix A Brief History of the Statistics Department of the University of California at Berkeley .................................. 317 Terry Speed, Jim Pitman and John Rice University of Chicago Department of Statistics.................. 339 Stephen M. Stigler University of Connecticut Department of Statistics ............... 353 Dipak K. Dey, Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Lynn Kuo and Ming-Hui Chen University of Florida Department of Statistics .................. 369 Alan Agresti, William Mendenhall III and Richard Scheaffer University of Georgia Department of Statistics .................. 381 John Stufken and Robert L. Taylor University of Iowa Department of Statistics .................... 395 Robert V. Hogg and Dale L. Zimmerman University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics............... 407 Trivellore Raghunathan University of Minnesota School of Statistics .................... 419 Glen Meeden and Martha Coventry University of Missouri Department of Statistics ................. 429 Nancy Flournoy and Melody Galen University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Department of Statistics and Operations Research ........................ 443 Douglas G. Kelly The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics ................................ 453 Jane H. Monaco, Jianwen Cai, Lisa M. LaVange and Michael R. Kosorok University of Pennsylvania Department of Statistics .............. 469 Edward I. George, Abba M. Krieger, Donald F. Morrison and Paul Shaman University of Pittsburgh Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics........................................... 485 Howard Rockette, Leon Gleser and Carol Redmond x Contents University of Washington Department of Biostatistics............. 497 Norman E. Breslow University of Washington Department of Statistics ............... 511 Michael D. Perlman, Fritz W. Scholz and Galen R. Shorack University of Wisconsin Department of Statistics ................ 525 Norman Draper, Richard Johnson, Stephen Stigler, Kam-Wah Tsui and Brian Yandell Virginia Tech Department of Statistics........................ 537 J. C. Arnold, K. Hinkelmann, G. G. Vining and E. P. Smith Yale University Department of Statistics ...................... 547 John Hartigan Referees .............................................. 561 Contributors Alan Agresti Department of Statistics, University of Florida, 102 Griffin-Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-8545, USA, e-mail: [email protected]fl.edu Jesse Arnold Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech University, 406 A Hutcheson Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0439, USA, e-mail: [email protected] James Booth Department of Statistical Science, Cornell University, 301 Malott Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801, USA, e-mail: [email protected] John E. Boyer, Jr. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, 101 Dickens Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-0802, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Norm Breslow Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Health Sciences Building F, Seattle, WA 98195, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Jianwen Cai Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, 3101 McGavran–Greenberg, Campus Box 7420, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7420, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Ming-Hui Chen Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, 215 Glen- brook Road, U-4120, Storrs, CT 06269-4020, USA, e-mail: ming- [email protected] Martha Coventry School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, 313 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Dipak Dey Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road, U-4120, Storrs, CT 06269-4020, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Rebecca Doerge Department of Statistics, Purdue University, 250 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2066, USA, e-mail: [email protected] xi xii Contributors Norman Draper Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, 1220 Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1685, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Nancy Flournoy Department of Statistics, University of Missouri–Columbia, 146 Middlebush Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Melody Gaden Department of Statistics, University of Missouri–Columbia, 146 Middlebush Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Joe L. Gastwirth Department of Statistics, George Washington University, 2140 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20052,