Michael Woodroofe | |
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Born | Michael Barrett Woodroofe March 17, 1940 |
Died | February 22, 2022 | (aged 81)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics, Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Thesis | Statistical Properties of the Number of Positive Sums (1965) |
Doctoral advisor | Theodore Matthes |
Doctoral students | |
Website | dept |
Michael Barrett Woodroofe (March 17, 1940 – February 22, 2022) was an American probabilist and statistician. He was a professor of statistics and of mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he was the Leonard J. Savage Professor until his retirement. He was noted for his work in sequential analysis and nonlinear renewal theory, in central limit theory, and in nonparametric inference with shape constraints.