Wayne Arthur Fuller (born June 15, 1931) is an American

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who has specialised in

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and

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. He was on the staff of

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from 1959, becoming a Distinguished Professor in 1983. Fuller received his degrees from Iowa State University, with a B.S. in 1955, an M.S. in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1959. During his long career at Iowa State, he supervised 88 Ph.D. or M.S. dissertations. Fuller is a fellow of the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. Fuller also served as an editor of the

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, and

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. He also served on numerous National Academy of Science panels and was a member of the Committee on National Statistics. Wayne Fuller received 2003 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. He also received the 2002 Waksberg Award from the journal ''Survey Methodology''. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from

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. In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the

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(Switzerland).

Important works

* * Fuller, W.A. (1987) ''Measurement Error Models'', Wiley. * Fuller, W.A. (1996) ''Introduction to Statistical Time Series'', 2nd Edition, Wiley. * Fuller, W.A. (2009) ''Sampling Statistics'', Wiley.

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1931 births Living people Iowa State University alumni Iowa State University faculty American statisticians Survey methodologists Time series econometricians Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellows of the Econometric Society {{US-statistician-stub