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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Paul Sumner Dwyer |
1937 - 1972 | Professor of Statistics and Mathematics |
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Wal lace William Gardner |
1947 - 1968 | Associate Professor of Statistics |
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Bruce M. Hill |
1961 - 1998 | Professor of Statistics |
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William A. Ericson |
1962 - 1995 |
Professor of Statistics Chair Department of Statistics Associate Professor of Mathematics |
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J. E. Keith Smith |
1964 - 1996 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Statistics |
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Robert H. Berk |
1964 - 1970 |
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Associate Professor of Statistics |
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Gerald E. Thompson |
1965 - 1966 | Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics |
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Marvin J. Karson |
1967 - 1969 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Charles B. Bell Jr. |
1968 - 1969 | Professor of Statistics and Mathematics |
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Michael Woodroofe |
1968 - 2008 | Professor of Statistics & Mathematics |
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Vikton Kurotschka |
1969 - 1970 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Edward D. Rothman |
1969 - 2016 | Professor of Statistics |
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James Landwehr |
1970 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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William H. DuMouchel |
1971 - 1977 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Arjun K. Gupta |
1971 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Louis Jensen |
1971 - 1977 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Jan Kmenta |
1973 - 1993 | Professor of Economics, Statistics |
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Vinayak M. Joshi |
1975 - 1976 | Visiting Professor of Statistics |
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Christine Waternaux |
1975 - 1978 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Thomas Hammerstrom |
1977 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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George Wong |
1978 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Parmaraj Jeganathan |
1983 - 2002 | Associate Professor of Statistics |
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Myoungshic Jhun |
1985 - 1988 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Claude J. Belisle |
1986 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Julian J. Faraway |
1987 - 2006 |
Professor of Statistics Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering 2004-2006 Interim Chair Department of Statistics-2003 |
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Mark P. Becker |
1989 - 2000 | Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics |
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Yu Xie |
1989 - 2015 |
Professor of Sociology & Statistics Professor of Public Policy Research Professor, Survey Research Center & Population Studies |
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Brenda K. Gunderson |
1989 - 2020 |
Lecturer IV in Statistics Lecturer IV Emerita |
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Chien-Fu Jeff Wu |
1993 - 2004 |
Professor of Statistics Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering Chair Department of Statistics 1995-1998 |
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Vijayan N. Nair |
1993 - 2017 | Professor of Statistics, Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Steven G. Heeringa |
1996 - 2022 | Research Scientist Institute for Social Research |
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Stephen W. Raudenbush |
1998 - 2009 |
Professor of Education Professor of Sociology & Statistics Research Professor, Survey Research Center, ISR |
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Susan A. Murphy |
1998 - 2017 |
Professor of Statistics Research Professor, Survey Research Center, ISR Professor of Psychiatry |
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Anna Amirdjanova |
2001 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Statistics |
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Bin Nan |
2001 - 2017 | Professor of Biostatistics & Statistics |
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John D Kalbfleisch |
2002 - 2012 | Professor of Biostatistics & Statistics |
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Richard L. Valliant |
2003 - 2016 | Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research |