Current Faculty
Ronald W. Butler, Ph.D.
rbutler@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
C.F. Frensley Professor of Mathematical Sciences
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1977
Research Interests: Statistical Science, Survival Analysis, Saddlepoint Methods, Multivariate Analysis, Reliability Theory, Bootstrap and Robustness, Systems Theory & Stochastic Networks, Complex Variables, Likelihood & Bayesian Inference, Ocean Engineering Applications
Jing Cao, Ph.D.
jcao@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Associate Professor
University of Missouri, Columbia, 2005
Research Interests: Bayesian, Spatial Temporal Models, Epidemiology, Bayesian Applications, Bayesian Hierarchical Models, Bayesian Survival Analysis, Item Response Theory, Current Research Activities, Model Selection, Generalized Linear Models
Alan Elliott
acelliott@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Consulting Center
Southern Methodist University
Research Interests:
Richard F. Gunst, Ph.D.
rgunst@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Professor
Southern Methodist University, 1972
Research Interests: Regression Analysis, Linear Models, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Methods
Ian Richard Harris, Ph.D.
iharris@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Associate Professor
University of Birmingham, U.K. 1989
Research Interests: Robust Estimation, Minimum Divergence Methods, Nonparametric Methods, Variance Components, Mixed Models
Monnie McGee, Ph.D.
mmcgee@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Associate Professor
Rice University, 1994
Research Interests: Statistical Analysis, Statistical Methods, Time Series, Experimental Design Statistical Education, Normalization and Summarization
Hon Keung "Tony" Ng, Ph.D.
ngh@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Associate Professor
McMaster University, 2002
Research Interests: Reliability Theory, Life Testing Procedures, Statistical Inference, Censored Data Analysis, Non Parametric procedures
Cornelis J. Potgieter, Ph.D
cpotgieter@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Assistant Professor
University of Johannesburg, 2009
Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics, applications of characteristic functions, spatial statistics, capture-recapture methods, measurement error and latent variable models, generalized skew-symmetric distributions.
Stephen Robertson, Ph.D
sdrobert@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site |
Senior Lecturer
Southern Methodist University, 2008
Research Interests: Time Series Analysis with financial applications, Non-parametric methods in Education/Clinical Psychology, Statistical Applications in Sports.
S. Lynne Stokes, Ph.D
slstokes@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Professor
University of North Carolina, 1976
Research Interests: Non-Sampling Error Modeling, Capture/Recapture Methods
Sherry Wang, Ph.D.
swang@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Associate Professor
University of Texas (Austin), 2002.
Research Interests: Bayesian methods (Bayesian hierarchical models, Bayesian spatial modeling, Bayesian treed models, Bayesian variable selection), Bayesian applications in genomic data analysis, ranked set sampling and judgment poststratification, statistical applications of Geometric Programming.
Wayne A. Woodward, Ph.D.
waynew@smu.edu | Website | Faculty Site
Professor and Chair
Texas Tech University, 1974
Research Interests: Time Series, Robust Estimation, Statistical Analysis
Professor Emeritus
U. Narayan Bhat, Ph.D.
nbhat@smu.edu | Faculty Site
Professor Emeritus
The University of Western Australia, 1964.
Special Recognitions: Fellow ASA and Member ISI.
Henry L. Gray, Ph.D.
hgray@smu.edu | Faculty Site
Professor Emeritus
University of Texas (Austin), 1966
Special Recognitions: Fellow ASA
Campbell Read, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1969
Editor: Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Wiley)
William R. Schucany, Ph.D.
schucany@smu.edu | Website |
Professor Emeritus
Southern Methodist University, 1970
Special Recognitions: Fellow ASA; Founders Award ASA
Research Interests: Data analysis in biomedical research, gene expression and association studies, rank tests for trend Nonparametric curve estimation, local linear and kernels, adaptive bandwidths, wavelets resampling methodologies including jackknife, bootstrap, and randomization tests analysis of medical imaging data.