Obituary
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
GEORGE EDWARD PELHAM BOX, professor emeritus of Statistics and of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the age of 93. George founded the Department of Statistics…
Bill Studden in 1970. Photo: Purdue University Department of Statistics
William J. Studden passed away suddenly on March 19th, 2013.
Bill was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 30, 1935. Professor Studden received his B.Sc. from McMaster University (1958) and his PhD in Statistics in 1962 from Stanford University…
Martin B. Wilk, OC, died in Yorba Linda, California, on February 19, 2013; he was 90.
Throughout his career, Martin demonstrated that a statistician can successfully span academia, industry and government. For over half a century, he made important contributions, and occupied senior positions, in each of these domains. While…
Professor Damaraju Raghavarao, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Statistics in Fox School of Business, Temple University, died suddenly from cardiac arrest brought on by flu on February 6, 2013.
Raghavarao was born on January 5, 1938, the youngest of four children. His future career was foreshadowed at an early…