Biography:Brent Coull

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Short description: American statistician
Brent Coull
Alma materUniversity of Florida
Scientific career
ThesisSubject-Specific Modelling of Capture-Recapture Experiments (1997)
Doctoral advisorAlan Agresti
Websitewww.hsph.harvard.edu/brent-coull/

Brent Andrew Coull is an American statistician and Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University.[1]

Biography

He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Florida in 1997. His thesis advisor was Alan Agresti. He and his advisor came up with the Agresti–Coull interval, an approximate method for calculating binomial confidence intervals.[2]

Honors and awards

He was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010.[3]

References

  1. "Brent Coull" (in en-us). https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/brent-coull/. Retrieved 17 May 2020. 
  2. Agresti, Alan; Coull, Brent A. (1998). "Approximate Is Better than "Exact" for Interval Estimation of Binomial Proportions". The American Statistician 52 (2): 119–126. doi:10.2307/2685469. ISSN 0003-1305. 
  3. "American Statistical Association Names Fellows for 2010". https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~ralevine/2010FellowsAnnounced.pdf. Retrieved 17 May 2020.