Edward Wegman

Edward Wegman
Academic background
EducationSaint Louis University (B.S. 1965)
University of Iowa (Ph.D. 1968)
Academic work
DisciplineStatistics
InstitutionsGeorge Mason University

Edward Wegman is an American statistician and was a professor of statistics at George Mason University (GMU) until his retirement in 2018.[1] He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and past chair of the National Research Council Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. In addition to his work in the field of statistical computing, Wegman contributed a report to a Congressional hearing on climate change at the request of Republican Rep. Joe Barton. Wegman's report supported criticisms of the methodology of two specific paleoclimate studies into the temperature record of the past 1000 years, and argued that climate scientists were excessively isolated from the statistical mainstream. Subsequently, significant portions of Wegman's report were found to have been copied without attribution from a variety of sources, including Wikipedia, and a publication based on the report was retracted.[2][3]

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