Ralph Dennis Cook (born June 20, 1944) is an American
statistician
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, mostly known for
Cook's distance and the
Cook–Weisberg test. Cook is a Professor of Statistics at the
University of Minnesota
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.
After graduating from
Northern Montana College (1967), Cook earned his master's (1969) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees from
Kansas State University
Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...
. 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.
He is the author of several books, including ''Introduction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics'' and ''Residuals and Influence in Regression''.
In 1982 he was elected as a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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References
External links
Website at University of Minnesota
1944 births
Living people
American statisticians
Montana State University–Northern alumni
Kansas State University alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
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