Biography:R. Dennis Cook

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Ralph Dennis Cook
Born (1944-06-20) June 20, 1944 (age 81)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMontana State University
Kansas State University
Known forCook's distance
Cook–Weisberg test
Scientific career
Doctoral students
  • Francesca Chiaromonte
  • Liliana Forzani

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

  1. Cook, R. Dennis (February 1977). "Detection of Influential Observations in Linear Regression". Technometrics (American Statistical Association) 19 (1): 15–18. doi:10.2307/1268249. 
  2. Cook, R. D.; Weisberg, S. (1983). "Diagnostics for Heteroscedasticity in Regression". Biometrika 70 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1093/biomet/70.1.1. 
  3. Curriculum Vitae: R. Dennis Cook
  4. R. Dennis Cook at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Dennis Cook, R. (9 October 2018). An Introduction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1119422938. 
  6. Cook, R. D.; Weisberg, S. (21 October 1982). Residuals and Influence in Regression. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 041224280X. 
  7. View/Search Fellows of the ASA , accessed 2016-10-15.