Ralph Dennis Cook | |
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| Born | June 20, 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Montana State University Kansas State University |
| Known for |
Cook's distance Cook–Weisberg test |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral students | Francesca Chiaromonte |
Ralph Dennis Cook (born June 20, 1944) is an American statistician, mostly known for Cook's distance [1] and the Cook–Weisberg test. [2] Cook is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Minnesota.
After graduating from Northern Montana College (1967), Cook earned his master's (1969) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees from Kansas State University. [3] His dissertation, The Dynamics of Finite Populations: The Effects of Variable Selection Intensity and Population Size on the Expected Time to Fixation and the Ultimate Probability of Fixation of an Allele, was supervised by Raj Nassar. [4]
He is the author of several books, including Introduction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics [5] and Residuals and Influence in Regression. [6]
In 1982 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [7]
References
- ^ Cook, R. Dennis (February 1977). "Detection of Influential Observations in Linear Regression". Technometrics. 19 (1). American Statistical Association: 15–18. doi: 10.2307/1268249. JSTOR 1268249. MR 0436478.
- ^ Cook, R. D.; Weisberg, S. (1983). "Diagnostics for Heteroscedasticity in Regression". Biometrika. 70 (1): 1–10. doi: 10.1093/biomet/70.1.1. hdl: 11299/199411.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae: R. Dennis Cook
- ^ R. Dennis Cook at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Dennis Cook, R. (9 October 2018). An Introduction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1119422938.
- ^ Cook, R. D.; Weisberg, S. (21 October 1982). Residuals and Influence in Regression. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 041224280X.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-10-15.
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