Michael Woodroofe

Michael Woodroofe
Woodroofe lecturing in 2002
Born
Michael Barrett Woodroofe

(1940-03-17)March 17, 1940
DiedFebruary 22, 2022(2022-02-22) (aged 81)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, Mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Thesis Statistical Properties of the Number of Positive Sums  (1965)
Doctoral advisorTheodore Matthes
Doctoral students
Websitedept.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~michaelw/

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.