February 7, 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
Myles Hollander
Department of Statistics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
FAX: (850)-644-5271 e-mail address: holland@stat.fsu.edu
URL: http://stat.fsu.edu/~holland
Personal History
Born - March 21, 1941; Brooklyn, New York
Married - 1963 (to Glee Ross of Spokane, Washington)
Children - Layne Q. (born 1964)
Bart Q. (born 1968)
Degrees:
B.S. (Mathematics), Carnegie Mellon University, 1961
M.S. (Statistics), Stanford University, 1962
Ph.D. (Statistics), Stanford University, 1965
Experience and Positions:
Professor Emeritus, Florida State University (2007-present)
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Florida State University
(1998-present)
Distinguished Research Professor of Statistics, Florida State University (1996-present)
Professor of Statistics, Florida State University (1973-1996)
Visiting Professor Biostatistics, University of Washington (1989-1990).
Visiting Professor Biostatistics, Stanford University (1981-1982)

Chairman, Department of Statistics, Florida State University (1978-1981, 1999-2005).
Visiting Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Stanford University (1972-1973)
Associate Professor of Statistics, Florida State University (1969-1972)
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Florida State University (1965-1969)
Instructor, Stanford University (Summer, 1965)
Consultant, San Francisco Presbyterian Medical Center (Summer, 1964)
Honors
Fellow, American Statistical Association (selected in 1972).
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (selected in 1973).
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (elected in 1977).
Chairman, Department of Statistics, Florida State University (1978-1981).
Buckingham Scholar-in-Residence, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
September 25-28, 1985.
Associate Editor, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, (1993-1997), (2003-2005).
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association (1985-1993).
Associate Editor, Lifetime Data Analysis, 1994 - 2007.
Editor-Elect, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory & Methods, 1993.
Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory & Methods, 1994-1996.
Awarded Title of Distinguished Research Professor, Florida State University, 1996.
Professorial Excellence Program Award, Florida State University, 1997.
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Award, Florida State University, 1998.
Ralph A. Bradley Lecturer, University of Georgia, 1999.
Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award, American Statistical Association, 2003.
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Fields of Interest
Nonparametric methods, biostatistics, reliability.
Societies
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
American Statistical Association
International Statistical Institute
Publications
1.
Hollander, M. A nonparametric test for the two-sample problem, Psychometrika 28 , 395-403,
1963.
2.
Hollander, M. An asymptotically distribution-free multiple comparison procedure-treatments vs. control, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 37 , 735-738, 1966.
3.
Hollander, M. Rank tests for randomized blocks when the alternatives have an a priori ordering,
The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 38 , 867-877, 1967.
4.
Hollander, M. Asymptotic efficiency of two nonparametric competitors of Wilcoxon's two sample test, Journal of the American Statistical Association 62 , 939-949, 1967.
5.
Hollander, M. Certain uncorrelated nonparametric test statistics, Journal of the American
Statistical Association 63 , 707-714, 1968.
6. Hollander, M. Tests for the study of regression curves, Proceedings of the Symposium sur
L'Informatique Médicale, Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse, 221-228, 1968.
7.
Hollander, M. Book review of Mathematical Statistics: A Decision Theoretic Approach by T.S.
Ferguson (Academic Press, New York, 1967, 396 pp), in Journal of the American Statistical
Association 63 , 721-722, 1968.
8.
Hollander, M. A distribution-free test for parallelism, Journal of the American Statistical
Association 65, 387-394, 1970.
9.
Randles, H.R. and Hollander, M. T-minimax selection procedures in treatments versus control problems, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 42 , 330-341, 1971.
10.
Hollander, M. A nonparametric test for bivariate symmetry, Biometrika 58 , 203-212, 197l.
11.
Hollander, M. and Proschan, F. Testing whether new is better than used, The Annals of
Mathematical Statistics 43 , 1136-1146, 1972.

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12.
Pirie, W. R. and Hollander, M. A distribution-free normal scores test for ordered alternatives in the randomized block design, Journal of the American Statistical Association 67 , 855-857, 1972.
13.
Hollander, M. Book review of Nonparametric Statistics by J. Hájek (Holden-Day, San
Francisco, 1969, 184 pp.), in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics 30 , 231-232, 1972.
14.
Hollander, M. and Wolfe, D.A. Nonparametric Statistical Methods, John Wiley and Sons, New
York, A Volume in the Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 1973 (503 pp.).
15.
Korwar, R. M. and Hollander M. Contributions to the theory of Dirichlet processes, The Annals of Probability 1, 705-711, 1973.
16.
Angel, R.W., Hollander, M., and Wesley, M. Hand-eye coordination: The role of motor memory,
Perception and Psychophysics 14 , 506-515, 1973.
17.
Hollander, M., Pledger, G. W. and Lin, P. Robustness of the Wilcoxon test to a certain dependency between samples, The Annals of Statistics 2 , 177-181, 1974.
18.
Brown, B.W. Jr., Hollander, M., and Korwar, R.M. Nonparametric tests of independence for censored data with applications to heart transplant studies, Reliability and Biometry , ed. by F.
Proschan and R.J. Serfling. SIAM, Philadelphia, 327-354, 1973.
19.
Hollander, M. A note on Theil's test for linearity of regression, Econometrica 42 , 211-213, 1974.
20.
Hollander, M. and Proschan, F. A test for superadditivity of the mean value function of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process, Stochastic Processes and Their Applications 2 , 195-209,
1974.
21.
Hollander, M. and Proschan F. Tests for the mean residual life, Biometrika 62 , 585-593, 1975.
22.
Pirie, W.R. and Hollander, M. Note on a Tukey test for ordered alternatives. Annals of the
Institute of Statistical Mathematics 27, 521-523, 1975.
23.
Korwar, R.M. and Hollander, M. Empirical Bayes estimation of a distribution function, The
Annals of Statistics 4 , 580-587, 1976.
24.
Hollander, M. and Korwar, R.M. Nonparametric empirical Bayes estimation of the probability that X ≤ Y (invited paper for the special issue of Communications in Statistics devoted to nonparametric statistics) Communications in Statistics A5(14), 1369-1383, 1976.
25.
Hollander, M. and Kowar, R.M. Nonparametric estimation of distribution functions. The Theory and Applications of Reliability, Vol. I, 85-107, ed. by C.P. Tsokos and I.N. Shimi, Academic
Press, New York, 1977.
26.
Brown, B.W., Jr. and Hollander, M. Statistics: A Biomedical Introduction, John Wiley and Sons,
New York, A Volume in the Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics , 1977 (456 pp.).

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27.
Hollander, M., Proschan, F., and Sethuraman, J. Functions decreasing in transposition and their applications in ranking problems, The Annals of Statistics 5 , 722-733, 1977.
28.
Bradley, R.A. and Hollander, M. Frank Wilcoxon (a biography), International Encyclopedia of
Statistics 2 , 1245-1250, ed. by W. H. Kruskal and J.M. Tanur, MacMillan and the Free Press,
New York, 1978.
29.
Campbell, G. and Hollander, M. Rank order estimation with the Dirichlet prior, The Annals of
Statistics 6 , 142-153, 1978.
30.
Hollander, M. and Sethuraman, J. Testing for agreement between two groups of judges,
Biometrika 65 , 403-411, 1978.
31.
Hollander, M. Testing whether more failures occur later, Proceedings of the 1978 Annual
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 103-106, 1978.
32.
Campbell, G. and Hollander, M. Nonparametric Bayes estimation with incomplete Dirichlet prior information, Optimizing Methods in Statistics, 73-87, ed. by J. Rustagi, Academic Press, 1979.
33.
Hollander, M. and Proschan, F. Testing to determine the underlying distribution using randomly censored data, Biometrics 35 , 393-401, 1979.
34.
Hollander, M., Proschan, F., and Sethuraman, J. Decreasing in transposition property of overlapping sums, and applications, Journal of Multivariate Analysis 11 , 50-57, 1981.
35.
Hannum, R.C., Hollander, M., and Langberg, N. Distributional results for random functionals of a Dirichlet process, Annals of Probability 9, 665-670, 1981.
36.
Hollander, M. Tests for dependence, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 2, 339-347, ed. by S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, John Wiley, New York, 1982,
37.
Chen, Y.Y., Hollander, M., and Langberg, N. Small-sample results for the Kaplan-Meier estimator, Journal of the American Statistical Association 77 , 141-144, 1982.
38.
Hollander, M. and Korwar, R. M. Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of the horizontal distance between two populations. János Bolyai Mathematical Society Colloquium on Nonparametric
Statistical Inference, 409-415, North Holland, 1982.
39.
Hollander, M. Hollander bivariate symmetry test, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume
3, 650-653, ed by S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, John Wiley, New York, 1983.
40.
Hollander, M. Hollander extreme test, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 3, 653-656, ed. by S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, John Wiley, New York, 1983.
41.
Hollander, M. Hollander parallelism test, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 3, 656-
659, ed. by S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, John Wiley, New York, 1983.

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42.
Hollander, M. Hollander-Proschan new-better-than-used test, Encyclopedia of Statistical
Sciences , Volume 3, 659-662, ed. by S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, John Wiley, New York, 1983.
43.
Campbell, G. and Hollander, M. Prediction intervals with the Dirichlet prior, The Canadian
Journal of Statistics 10, 103-111, 1982.
44.
Chen, Y.Y., Hollander, M., and Langberg, N. Testing whether new is better than used with randomly censored data, The Annals of Statistics 11, 267-274, 1983.
45.
Chen, Y.Y., Hollander, M., and Langberg, N. Tests for monotone mean residual life, using randomly censored data, Biometrics 39 , 119-127, 1983.
46.
Hannum, R. and Hollander, M. Robustness of Ferguson's Bayes estimator of a distribution function. The Annals of Statistics 11 , 632-639, 1983.
47.
Hollander, M. and Proschan, F. The Statistical Exorcist, Volume 3 in Popular Statistics Series,
265 pp., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1984.
48.
Hollander, M. and Proschan, F. Nonparametric concepts and methods in reliability, Chapter 27,
613-655, Handbook of Statistics, Vol. 4, Nonparametric Methods, ed. by P.R. Krishnaiah and
P.K. Sen, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1984.
49.
Hollander, M., Park, D.H., and Proschan, F. Testing whether new is better than used of a specified age using randomly censored data, The Canadian Journal of Statistics 13 , 45-52, 1985.
50.
Hollander, M., Park, D.H., and Proschan, F. Testing whether F is more NBU than is G,
Microelectronics and Reliability 26, 39-44, 1986.
51.
Hollander, M., Park, D.H., and Proschan, F. A class of life distributions for aging, Journal of the
American Statistical Association 81, 91-95, 1986.
52.
Hollander, M. Easily-stated but hard statistical problems. ASA 1986 Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education , 62-68.
53.
Guess, F., Hollander, M., and Proschan, F. Testing exponentiality versus a trend change in mean residual life, The Annals of Statistics 14, 1388-1398, 1986.
54.
Hollander, M., Proschan, F., and Sconing, J. Measuring information in randomly right-censored models. Naval Research Logistics 34, 669-681, 1987.
55.
Hollander, M. Testing for symmetry, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 9, 211-216, ed. by S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, John Wiley, New York, 1988.
56. Bradley, R.A. and Hollander, M. Frank Wilcoxon. A biography, Encyclopedia of Statistical
Sciences , Volume 9, 609-612, ed. by S. Kotz and N. L. Johnson. John Wiley, New York, 1988.

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57. Hollander, M. Wilcoxon-type tests for ordered alternatives in randomized blocks, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 9, 619-627, ed. by S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, John Wiley, New
York, 1988.
58.
Hollander, M. and Peña, E. Nonparametric tests under restricted treatment assignment rules,
Journal of the American Statistical Association 83, 1144-1151, 1988.
59.
Hollander, M. and Peña, E. Families of confidence bands for the survival function under the general random censorship model and the Koziol-Green model, The Canadian Journal of
Statistics , 17, 59-74, 1989.
60.
Hollander, M., Presnell, B., and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric inference under minimal repair,
Proceedings of the Army Workshop on Design of Experiments, 103-111, 1991.
61.
Hollander, M., Proschan, F., and Sconing, J. Information, censoring and dependence Topics in
Statistical Dependence , 257-268, IMS Lecture Notes - Mongraph 16, ed. by H.W. Block, A.R.
Sampson, and T.H. Savits, 1991.
62.
Hollander, M. and Peña, E. Some classes of nonparametric goodness of fit tests for censored data. Part I: Simple null hypothesis case. Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics, 97-118, ed. by A.K. Saleh, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1992.
63.
Hollander, M. and Peña, E. A chi-square goodness-of-fit test for randomly censored data,
Journal of the American Statistical Association 87, 458-463, 1992.
64.
Hollander, M., Presnell, B., and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric methods for imperfect repair models, The Annals of Statistics , 20, 879-896, 1992.
65.
Dorado, C. and Hollander, M. Inequalities for the parameters λ(F), µ(F) with applications in nonparametric statistics. Stochastic Inequalities , 50-65, IMS Monograph Series Volume 22, ed. by M. Shaked and Y. L. Tong, 1993.
66.
Antoine, R., Doss, H., and Hollander, M. On identifiability in the autopsy model of reliability theory. Journal of Applied Probability , 30, 913-930, 1993.
67. Antoine, R., Doss, H., and Hollander, M. A comparison of various estimators in reliability models involving mutual censorship of component lifelengths. Advances in Reliability, 1-20, ed. by A. P. Basu, North Holland, 1993.
68. Presnell, B., Hollander, M., and Sethuraman, J. Testing the minimal repair assumption in an imperfect repair model. Journal of American Statistical Association , 89, 289-297, 1994.
69. Hollander, M., and Marshall, A.W. A conversation with Frank Proschan, Statistical Science , 10,
118-133, 1995.
70. Hollander, M. and Peña, E. Dynamic reliability models with conditional proportional hazards,
Journal of Lifetime Data Analysis, 1, 377-401, 1995.

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71.
Hollander, M. and Peña, E. Dynamic reliability models, Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and
Survival Analysis, 131-140, ed. by N.P. Jewell, A.C. Kimber, M.T. Lee and G.A. Whitmore,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1996.
72. Boland, P.J., Joag-Dev, K., Hollander, M. and Kochar, S. Bivariate dependence properties of order statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis 56 , 75-89, 1996.
73. Li, G., Hollander, M., McKeague, I.W., and Yang, J. Nonparametric likelihood ratio confidence bands for quantile functions from incomplete survival data, The Annals of Statistics , 24, 628-640,
1996.
74. Hollander, M. and Peña, E. Reliability models and inference for series systems operating in different environments, Naval Logistics Research , 43, 1079-1108, 1996.
75.
Hollander, M., McKeague, I.W., and Yang, J. Likelihood ratio based confidence bands for survival functions, Journal of the American Statistical Association 92, 215-226, 1997.
76.
Dorado, C., Hollander, M., and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric estimation for a general repair model, The Annals of Statistics , 25, 1140-1160, 1997.
77.
Hollander, M. and Wolfe, D.A.
Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Second Edition , A volume in the Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Wiley, New York, 1999 (787 pp.).
78.
Brown, B.W., Jr. and Hollander, M. A conversation with Lincoln E. Moses, Statistical Science ,
14, 338-354, 1999.
79.
Peña, E., Strawderman, R., and Hollander, M. A weak convergence result relevant in recurrent and renewal models. In: Recent Advances in Reliability Theory , 493-514, ed. by N. Limnios and
M. Nikulin, Birkhauser, Boston, 2000.
80.
Hollander, M. and Sethuraman, J. Modern reliability models: A nonparametric approach.
Proceedings of the 10 th International Symposium on Applied Statistics Models and Data Analysis ,
1, 44-47, ed. by G. Govaert, J. Janssen and N. Limnios, Compiegne, France, 2001.
81.
Hollander, M. A conversation with Ralph A. Bradley, Statistical Science 16, 75-100, 2001.
82.
Hollander, M., Laird, G., and Song, K. Maximum likelihood estimation in the proportional hazards model of random censorship. Statistics , 35, 245-258, 2001.
83.
Peña, E., Strawderman, R., and Hollander, M. Nonparametric estimation with recurrent event data, Journal of the American Statistical Association , 96, 1299-1315, 2001.
84.
Hollander, M. and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric methods: Advanced computational approaches, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences , 10660-10667, ed. by N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, Permagon, Oxford, 2001.
85.
Hollander, M. Ralph Allen Bradley: Obituary, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin, 31,
Issue 1, 16, 2002.

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86.
Hollander, M. and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric methods: Rank-based procedures,
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences , 10673-10680, ed. by N.J.
Smelser and P.B. Baltes, Permagon, Oxford, 2001.
87.
Hollander, M. and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric inference for repair models, Sankhya , 64, 693-
706, 2002.
88.
Hollander, M., Laird, G., and Song, K. Nonparametric inference for the proportionality function in the random censorship model, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics , 15, 151-169, 2003.
89.
Hollander, M. Nonparametric methods in reliability and survival analysis. Noether Award
Lecture, American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, 2003.
Published by the American Statistical Association.
90.
Hollander, M. Frank Proschan: Obituary, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin, 33, Issue
2, 9, 2004.
91.
Peña, E. and Hollander, M. Models for recurrent phenomena in survival analysis and reliability,
Mathematical Reliability: An Expository Perspective , 105-123 , ed. by T. Mazzuchi, N.
Singpurwalla and R. Soyer, Kluwer, 2004.
92.
Hollander, M. and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric methods for repair models, Handbook of
Statistics , 23, Advances in Survival Analysis , 747-763, ed. by C.R. Rao and N. Balakrishnan,
Elsevier, New York, 2004.
93.
The Diverse Populations Collaboration. Smoking, body weight, and CHD mortality in diverse populations, Preventive Medicine , 38, 834-840, 2004.
94.
Hollander, M. and Peña, E. Nonparametric methods in reliability,
Statistical Science 19, 644-
651, 2004.
95.
McGee, D.L. and the Diverse Populations Collaboration. Body mass index and mortality: A meta-analysis based on person-level data from twenty-six observational studies, Annals of
Epidemiology 15, 87-97, 2005.
96.
Diverse Populations Collaborative Group. Weight-height relationships and body mass index: some observations from the Diverse Populations Collaboration, American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 128, 220-229, 2005.
97.
Kitsantas, P., Hollander, M., and Li, L. Stability of classification trees. Proceedings of the 5 th St.
Petersburg Workshop on Simulation , 359-366, ed. by S. M. Ermakov, V.B. Melas, and A.N.
Pepelyshev, St. Petersburg University Publishers, 2005.
98.
Hollander, M., Sampson, A., Sethuraman, J., and Spencer, B. I. Richard Savage: A Biography,
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences , Second Edition ,11, 7440-7443, ed. by N. Balakrishnan, C.
Read, and B. Vidakovic, John Wiley, New York, 2006.

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Sethuraman, J. and Hollander, M. Bayesian methods in repair models. Proceedings of the
International Conference on Degradation, Damage, Fatigue and Accelerated Life Models in
Reliability Testing , 217-221, Angers, France, 2006.
100.
Kitsantas, P., Hollander, M. and Li, L. Using classification trees to assess low birth outcomes.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 38, 275-289, 2006.
101.
Kitsantas, P., Hollander, M. and Li, L. Assessing the stability of classification trees using Florida birth data, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference , 137, 3917-3929, 2007.
102.
Hollander, M., Samaniego, F.J. and Sethuraman, J. Imperfect repair. Encyclopedia of Statistics in
Quality and Reliability , ed. by F. Ruggeri, R. Kenett, and F.W. Faltin, Wiley, Chichester, UK,
843-847, 2007.
103.
Hollander, M., Samaniego, F.J. and Sethuraman, J. Nonparametric methods for analysis of repair data. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability , ed. by F. Ruggeri, R. Kenett, and F.W.
Faltin, Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1248-1252, 2007.
104.
Brown, B. W. Jr. and Hollander, M. Statistics: A Biomedical Introduction. John Wiley and Sons,
New York. A Volume in the Wiley Classics Library Series , 2008.
105.
Hollander, M. A conversation with Jayaram Sethuraman. Statistical Science 23, 272-285, 2008.
106.
Hollander, M. and Samaniego, F.J. On comparing the reliability of arbitrary systems via stochastic precedence, Advances in Mathematical Modeling for Reliability , ed. by T. Bedford, J.
Quigley, L. Walls, B. Alkali, A. Daneshkhan, and G. Hardman, 129-137, IOS Press, 2008.
107.
Sethuraman, J. and Hollander, M. Nonparametric Bayes estimation in repair models. Journal of
Statistical Planning and Inference 139, 1722-1733, 2009.
108.
Simino, J., Hollander, M. and McGee, D. Calibration of proportional hazards and accelerated failure time models. Comm. Statist. - Simulation and Computation 41, 922-941, 2012.
109.
Hollander, M., McAssey, M.P. and Samaniego, F.J. A signature-based approach to comparisons among multiple systems. Journal of the Indian Statistical Association 51, 83-104, 2013.
110.
Hollander, M., Wolfe, D. A., and Chicken, E. Nonparametric Statistical Methods. Third
Edition. John Wiley and Sons, New York. A Volume in the Wiley Series in Probability
and Mathematical Statistics.
2014 (819 pp).
Selected Professional Activities
Invited speaker, University of Minnesota, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, 1965.
Invited speaker, UCLA, Department of Biostatistics Colloquia Series, 1965.

Invited speaker, SREB Summer Research Conference in Statistics, Brevard, North
Carolina, 1966.
Invited speaker, Bell Telephone Laboratories Statistics Colloquia Series, Murray Hill,
New Jersey, 1966.
Invited speaker, University of Florida, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, 1966.
Invited speaker, Clemson University, Department of Mathematics Colloquia Series, 1968.
Invited speaker, Symposium sur l'Informatique Medicale, University de Toulouse, March
1968.
Visiting Lecturer, National Science Foundation sponsored program of Visiting Lecturers in
Statistics, 1969-1972.
Associate Secretary, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Eastern Region 1970-1972.
Invited speaker, University of Florida, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, 1970.
Invited speaker, Institut de Recherche D'Informatique et D'Automatique, Rocquencourt,
France, 1970.
Invited speaker, SREB Summer Research Conference in Statistics, Mountain Lake,
Virginia, 1971.
Invited speaker, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Mathematics Colloquia
Series, 1972.
Invited speaker, 132nd Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Blacksburg,
Virginia, 1972)
Invited speaker, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Statistics Colloquia
Series, 1973.
Invited speaker, University of California, Davis, Department of Mathematics Colloquia
Series, 1973.
Invited speaker, 138th Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Albuquerque,
New Mexico, 1973).
Invited speaker, Stanford University, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, 1973.
Invited speaker, Department of Biostatistics, Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, California
(series of 3 lectures), 1973.
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Invited speaker, 140th Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Iowa City,
Iowa, 1973).
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (selected in 1973).
Invited speaker, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Department of Statistics,
Colloquia Series, 1974.
Invited speaker, 147th Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Rochester, New
York, 1975).
Invited speaker, Air Force Sponsored Symposium on Reliability Theory (Tampa, Florida,
1975).
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Operations Committee, 1975-1977 (Chairman in 1977).
Invited speaker, SREB Summer Research Conference in Statistics (Winter Park, Florida,
1976).
Invited speaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Statistics Colloquia
Series, 1977.
Invited speaker, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Department of Mathematics
Colloquia Series, 1977.
Invited speaker, South Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1977.
Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Statistics (New Hampton, New
Hampshire, July, 1977).
Invited speaker, International Conference on Optimization, Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, December, 1977.
Invited speaker, Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Los Angeles, January,
1978.
Invited paper, 171st Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Charleston,
March, 1980.
Invited speaker, Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society Colloquium on Nonparametric
Statistical Inference, June, 1980, Budapest, Hungary (paper presented by I.R. Savage).
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Nonparametric Statistics Short Courses, Two per year from 1973-1981 at the George Washington
University Continuing Engineering Education Center (with D.A Wolfe).
Invited speaker, Stanford University, Division of Biostatistics, Colloquia Series,
November, 1981.
Invited speaker, University of California, Berkeley, Division of Biostatistics Colloquia
Series, January, 1982.
Invited speaker, University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Mathematics
Colloquia Series, February, 1982.
Invited speaker, Stanford University, Department of Statistics, Colloquia Series, March,
1982.
Invited speaker, Stanford University, Division of Biostatistics Colloquia Series, March,
1982.
Invited speaker, University of California at Davis, Department of Mathematics Colloquia
Series, March 1982.
Invited speaker, University of California, Riverside, Department of Statistics Colloquia
Series, April 1982.
Invited speaker, Bay Area Biostatistics Colloquia Series, University of California Medical
School, San Francisco, May 1982.
Invited speaker, 181st Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Diego, June,
1982.
Coordinator and co-Teacher (with D.A. Wolfe) of Nonparametric Statistics Short Course presented semi-annually at Continuing Engineering education, George Washington
University, 1974-1982.
Visiting lecturer, Series sponsored by Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies,
1980-1986.
Invited speaker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Mathematics,
Colloquia Series, October, 1982.
Invited speaker, University of West Florida, Department of Mathematics, Colloquia Series,
April, 1983.
Invited speaker, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Colloquia
Series, July, 1983.

Invited speaker, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Colloquia
Series, June, 1984.
Invited speaker, University of Florida, Department of Statistics, Colloquia Series,
February, 1985.
Invited speaker, Ohio State University, Department of Statistics, Colloquia Series, May,
1985.
Invited speaker, Atlanta Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Georgia State
University, August, 1985.
Invited speaker, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics, Colloquia
Series, August, 1985.
Invited speaker, Thirteenth Annual Miami University Conference on Mathematics and
Statistics, Oxford, Ohio, September, 1985 (Presented three lectures.)
Invited speaker, University of West Florida, Department of Mathematics, Colloquia Series,
April, 1986.
Invited speaker, Annual ASA Meetings, Chicago, 1986.
Invited speaker, University of Florida, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Colloquia Series, February, 1987.
Invited speaker, Conference on Dependence Concepts and their Applications in Statistics and Probability, University of Pittsburgh, August, 1987.
Invited speaker, Conference on Reliability, University of Missouri, Columbia,
May, 1988.
Invited speaker, Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle,
December 1989. (Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Department of Statistics,
University of Washington).
Invited speaker, Department of Biostatistics Journal Club Colloquia Series, University of Washington, October, 1989.
Invited speaker, Biostatistics Colloquia Series, Stanford University, February, 1990.
Invited speaker, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, University of British
Columbia, March, 1990
Invited speaker, Department of Biostatistics Colloquia Series, University of
Washington, May, 1990.
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Invited speaker, International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics, Carleton
University, Ottawa, May, 1991.
Invited speaker, International Conference on Reliability, University of Missouri, Columbia,
June, 1991.
Invited speaker, Stochastic Inequalities Conference, University of Washington, Seattle,
July, 1991.
Invited speaker, ASA-IMS Writing Workshop For Young Researchers, Joint Statistical
Meetings, San Francisco, August, 1993.
Invited speaker, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, University of Florida, January,
1994.
Invited speaker, International Reliability Conference, Harvard University, June, 1994.
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Invited speaker, ASA-IMS Writing Workshop For Young Researchers, Joint Statistical
Meetings, Toronto, August, 1994.
Invited speaker, Department of Biostatistics Colloquia Series, Harvard University, May,
1996.
Invited speaker, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, University of Florida, October,
1996.
Invited speaker, Public Statistics Day, Joint Statistical Meetings, Dallas, August, 1998.
Robert O. Lawton Lecture, Florida State University-Wide Address, October, 1998.
Invited speaker, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquia Series, Bowling Green State
University, November, 1998.
Invited speaker, University of Florida Conference on Nonparametric Statistics, January, 1999.
Invited Ralph A. Bradley Lecturer, University of Georgia, April, 1999.
Invited speaker, 10 th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, University of Ulm, Ulm,
Germany, July, 1999.
Invited Graduate Colloquium speaker, Northern Illinois University, October, 1999.
Invited speaker, FSU Parents’ Day, November, 1999.

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Invited speaker, Department of Mathematics Colloquia Series, Florida Atlantic University,
November, 1999.
Invited speaker, Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability,
University Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France, July, 2000.
Invited speaker, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, Brigham Young University, January,
2001.
Invited speaker, Department of Mathematical Statistics Colloquia Series, University of North
Florida, January, 2001.
Invited keynote speaker, 10 th International Symposium on Applied Stochastic Models and Data
Analysis, University of Technology, Compiegne, France, June, 2001.
Invited speaker, Department of Statistics, University of Tennessee Colloquia Series and the East
Tennessee Chapter of the ASA (one talk supported by both organizations), Knoxville, March,
2002.
Invited speaker, Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, June, 2002.
Invited speaker, International Conference on Nonparametric Methods, Florida State University,
January, 2003.
Invited plenary speaker, International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis, University of South Carolina, May, 2003.
Invited speaker, Noether Award, Fourth Invited Lecture, 163 rd Annual Meeting of the American
Statistical Association, San Francisco, August, 2003.
Invited speaker, International Workshop in Applied Probability, University of Piraeus, Greece,
March, 2004.
Invited speaker, Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Santa
Fe, June, 2004.
Invited speaker, Fifth St. Petersburg Workshop on Simulation, St. Petersburg, Russia, June, 2005.
Invited speaker, Department of Statistics Colloquia Series, University of California, Davis, April,
2006.
Invited speaker, Department of Mathematics Colloquia Series, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, April, 2006.
Invited speaker, ALT’ 2006 International Conference on Degradation, Damage, Fatigue and
Accelerated Life Models in Reliability Testing, University of Angers, Angers, France, May, 2006.

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Invited keynote speaker, Department of Statistics Annual Statistics Conference, Florida
International University, Miami, March, 2009.
Invited Speaker, Sixth St. Petersburg Workshop on Simulation, St. Petersburg, Russia, June,
2009.
Invited Speaker, Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability,
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, June, 2011.
Invited Speaker, 58 th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin,
Ireland , August, 2011.
Ph.D. Students Graduated:
Ronald H. Randles: T-Minimax procedures for the use of incomplete prior information in selection and classification problems, 1969.
Walter R. Pirie: Distribution-free tests for ordered alternatives in the randomized block model, 1970.
Jairus D. Flora: Bayes nonparametric selection procedures, 1971.
Ramesh M. Korwar: Contributions to the theory of Dirichlet processes, 1972
Gregory Campbell: Nonparametric estimation with the Dirichlet prior, 1976.
Robert Hannum: Contributions to Bayesian nonparametric statistics, 1979.
Yuan-Yan Chen: Testing for classes of life distributions using randomly censored data,
1980.
Dong-Ho Park: Testing whether new is better than used of a specified age, 1982 (Joint direction with F. Proschan).
Frank Guess: Testing for a mean residual life that changes trend, 1984. (Joint direction with F.
Proschan).
James Sconing: Information in censored models, 1986. (Joint direction with F. Proschan).
Edsel Peña: Nonparametric tests for biased coin designs, 1986.

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Brett Presnell: Nonparametric methods for imperfect repair models, 1989. Joint direction with J.
Sethuraman).
Robin Antoine: Identifiability in the autopsy model of reliability, 1991. (Joint direction with H. Doss).
Crisanto Dorado: On a general repair model for repairable systems, 1995. (Joint direction with J.
Sethuraman).
Jie Yang: Likelihood ratio based confidence bands in survival analysis, 1995. (Joint direction with I.W. McKeague).
Glen Laird: Nonparametric inference for the proportionality function in the random censorship model, 2000. (Joint direction with K. Song).
Panagiota Kitsanta: Assessing adverse birth outcomes via classification trees, 2003. (Joint direction with L. Li).
Jeannette Simino: Discrimination and calibration of prognostic survival models, 2009. (Joint direction with D. McGee).
Greg Miller: Investigating the use of mortality data as a surrogate for morbidity data, 2011. (Joint direction with D. McGee).
Grants and Contracts
Co-investigator, ONR contracts on nonparametric statistics and quality evaluation,
1968-1972.
(Ralph A. Bradley, Principal Investigator)
Co-investigator, Air Force contract on reliability, 1971-1976. (Frank Proschan, Principal
Investigator)
Principal investigator, Air Force contract on nonparametric methods with applications to reliability, 1976-1978.
Co-principal investigator (with F. Proschan), Air Force contract on statistical aspects of reliability, maintainability, and availability, 1978-1992.
Principal investigator, Air Force contract on statistical aspects of reliability, maintainability, and availability, 1993 - 1994.
Editor, JASA office in Tallahassee, Grant from American Statistical Association to run editorial office, 1993-1996.
Principal investigator, NIH contract on analysis of recurrent events with intervention,

1998-2001.
Co-principal investigator (with D. McGee), NIH grant on multivariate risk of CVD in diverse populations, 2002-2006.
Co-principal investigator (with D. McGee), NIH grant on BMI and mortality in diverse populations, 2002-2006.
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