Wayne Fuller

Wayne Arthur Fuller (born June 15, 1931) is an American statistician who has specialised in econometrics, survey sampling and time series analysis. He was on the staff of Iowa State University from 1959, becoming a Distinguished Professor in 1983.

Wayne A. Fuller
Born (1931-06-15) June 15, 1931
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIowa State University
Known forDickey–Fuller test
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, econometrics
InstitutionsIowa State University
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Shepherd
Doctoral studentsDavid Dickey
A. Ronald Gallant

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.[1] During his long career at Iowa State, he supervised 88 Ph.D. or M.S. dissertations.[2]

Fuller is a fellow of the American Statistical Association,[3] the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[4] and the International Statistical Institute. Fuller also served as an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, the American Statistician, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Survey Methodology. 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.[5] He also received the 2002 Waksberg Award from the journal Survey Methodology.[6]

In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from North Carolina State University.[7] In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

Important works
  • Dickey, D. A.; Fuller, W. A. (1979). "Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit Root". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 74 (366): 427–431. doi:10.2307/2286348. JSTOR 2286348.
  • Fuller, W.A. (1987) Measurement Error Models, Wiley. ISBN 0-471-86187-1
  • Fuller, W.A. (1996) Introduction to Statistical Time Series, 2nd Edition, Wiley. ISBN 0-471-55239-9
  • Fuller, W.A. (2009) Sampling Statistics, Wiley. ISBN 0-470-45460-1
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References
  1. Wayne Arthur Fuller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Wayne Fuller's home-page at Iowa State University, accessed March 2012
  3. ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association. Accessed January 24, 2010
  4. Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Accessed January 24, 2010
  5. NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR THE MARVIN ZELEN LEADERSHIP AWARD IN STATISTICAL SCIENCE, IMS Bulletin, vol. 32 (September/October 2003), no. 5, p. 8
  6. Nominations Sought for 2011 Waksberg Award, ISI Newsletter, Volume 33, No. 3 (99), 2009. Accessed January 24, 2010
  7. "NC State News :: NC State News and Information » NC State Announces Dr. John Seely Brown as Spring Commencement Speaker". News.ncsu.edu. 2009-04-09. Retrieved 2012-06-27.


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