Dr. Dennis Boos
Dennis D. Boos has been a professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University since obtaining his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1977. He was elected a Fellow of of the American Statistical Association in 2001. Active in teaching, research, and consulting, Dr. Boos has created three new undergraduate courses including an innovative course (with an online version) for engineering students that features a computing manual in R, Splus, and MATLAB. He has also created three new graduate courses and has taught short courses for post-graduates that include 1) "Robust Methods in Statistics" presented at the FDA and pharmaceutical companies, and 2) "Statistics for Geneticists I" as part of the annual "Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics" offered by the NC State Statistics Department 1997-2005. His research covers a wide range of topics with current focus on variable selection in regression. He has directed 13 Ph.D. students and consults with faculty at NC State and with companies in Research Triangle Park. He is currently finishing a book with Len Stefanski entitled "Modern Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods" under contract with Springer.
Patterson Hall 212, Box 8203
NCSU Campus
Raleigh, NC 27695
Phone: 919-515-1918
Fax: 919-515-1169
EMail: boos@stat.ncsu.edu