Alan Agresti

Alan Agresti
Born (1947-02-06) February 6, 1947 (age 77)
Alma materUniversity of Rochester
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forCategorical data analysis
Agresti–Coull interval
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Thesis Bounds on the Extinction-Time Distribution of a Branching Process
Doctoral advisorStephen Stigler
Doctoral studentsIvy Liu
Brent Coull

Alan Gilbert Agresti (born February 6, 1947) is an American statistician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida.[1] He has written several textbooks on categorical data analysis that are considered seminal in the field.

The Agresti–Coull confidence interval for a binomial proportion is named after him and his doctoral student Brent Coull.[2]

  1. ^ ""Statistics is an evolving field, rather than a fixed toolbox": An interview with Alan Agresti on the book he is proudest of as Wiley publishes its third edition". Statistics Views. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. ^ Agresti, Alan; Coull, Brent A. (1998). "Approximate Is Better than "Exact" for Interval Estimation of Binomial Proportions". The American Statistician. 52 (2): 119–126. Bibcode:1998AmSta..52..119A. doi:10.2307/2685469. ISSN 0003-1305. JSTOR 2685469.