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Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 221-226

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... He has served as editor of the American Statistical Association magazine Chance, and he currently is incoming chair of the National Research Council's Committee on National Statistics. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
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From page 222...
... Previously, he was a mathematical statistician at the Energy Information Administration, an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, a research associate at the Committee on National Statistics, and a visiting lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Princeton University. His general area of research is the use of statistics in public policy, with particular interest in census undercount and model validation.
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From page 223...
... Her primary research interest is the study of decision theoretically based knowledge representation and inference strategies for automated reasoning under uncertainty. She has worked on methods for automated construction of Bayesian belief networks and for recognizing when a system's current problem model is inadequate.
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From page 224...
... He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a senior member of the American Society for Quality. He is currently the joint editor of the International Statistical Review, is a past editor of Technometrics and has served on the editorial boards of several other statistical journals.
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From page 225...
... He conducts research in cleanroom software engineering and teaches software engineering courses. He has held academic appointments at Florida State University and Georgia Tech; has served as a National Science Foundation rotator, worked in the Executive Office of the President, and was executive director of the Committee on Science and Technology in the U.S.
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... He engages broadly in interdisciplinary research and consulting, and current professional interests include applications of statistics in environmental monitoring, transportation demand modeling, and census methodology. He received a B.S.
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