R. Dennis Cook
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.
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 |
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. American Statistical Association. 19 (1): 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. ISBN 978-1119422938.
- Cook, R. D.; Weisberg, S. (21 October 1982). Residuals and Influence in Regression. ISBN 041224280X.
- View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-10-15.