Professor, Department of Statistics

Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Director of the Center for Statistical Consultation and Research

B.S. in Mathematics (First Class), McGill University (1965)
Ph.D. in Statistics, Johns Hopkins University (1969)

Applications of statistical thinking in the social and natural sciences, and in a legal context.

• Estimation of phylogenetic relationships for DNA restriction patterns and selection endonuclease Rest. Sites, (with J. Adams). (1982) Proceedings of the National Academy, U.S.A. 79.
• Statistics: Methods and applications, (with W. A. Ericson). (1st Edition, 1982; 2nd Edition, 1987) Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa.
• A model of weak selection in the infinite alleles framework, (with N. C. Weber). (1986) Journal of Mathematical Biology 24 353-360.
• A revised indirect estimate of mutation rates in Amerindians, (with J. V. Neel, H. W. Mohrenweiser, and J. M. Naidu). (1986) American Journal of Human Genetics 38 649-666.
• Distributions on partitions, (with R. W. Keener and N. Starr). (1987) Annals of Statistics 15 1466-1481.