Ralph B. D'Agostino | |
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| Born | Ralph Benedict D'Agostino August 16, 1940[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Boston University (A.B. summa cum laude, 1962; A.M., 1964) Harvard University (Ph.D., 1968) |
| Known for | Biostatistics |
| Spouse |
LeiLanie Carta (m. 1965) |
| Children | Ralph Benedict[1] LeiLanie Maria[1] |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Statistical Association[1] Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee Service Award (2008)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics Epidemiology Mathematics |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Thesis | Estimation of Percentiles of Continuous Populations (1968) |
| Doctoral advisors | Frederick Mosteller[3] William Gemmell Cochran[3] |
| Doctoral students | Lisa M. Sullivan |
Ralph Benedict D'Agostino Sr. (born August 16, 1940) is an American biostatistician and professor of Mathematics/Statistics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Boston University. He was the director of the Statistics and Consulting Unit of the Framingham Study and the executive director of the M.A./Ph.D. program in biostatistics at Boston University.[2] He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990 and of the American Heart Association in 1991.[1]
His son, Ralph B. D'Agostino Jr., is also a biostatistician and fellow of the American Statistical Association (elected 2013).
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ralph Benedict D'Agostino Sr., PhD". Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ a b "Ralph D'Agostino Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ a b "Ralph D'Agostino". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2018-11-25.