Raymond James Carroll is an American statistician, and Distinguished Professor of statistics, nutrition and toxicology at Texas A&M University. He is a recipient of 1988 COPSS Presidents' Award and 2002 R. A. Fisher Lectureship. He has made fundamental contributions to measurement error model, nonparametric and semiparametric modeling.

Raymond James Carroll
Born (1949-04-21) April 21, 1949 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPurdue University, (Ph.D. 1974)
University of Texas at Austin, (B.A. 1971)
Known forMeasurement error model
Non-parametric statistics
SpouseMarcia G. Ory
AwardsR. A. Fisher Lectureship (2002)
COPSS Presidents' Award (1988)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsTexas A&M University, since 1987 University of North Carolina,1974-1987
Doctoral advisorShanti S. Gupta
Doctoral students

Biography

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Carroll was born in Japan of military parents in 1949 and grew up in Washington, D.C., Germany and Wichita Falls, Texas. He graduated with a B.A. from University of Texas at Austin in 1971 and a Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue University in 1974 under the supervision of Shanti S. Gupta.[1] He was on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1974 to 1987. He also had visiting positions at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Wisconsin, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Carroll has been a full professor of statistics,[2] nutrition[3] and toxicology[4] at Texas A&M University since 1987, was head of the Department of Statistics from 1987 to 1990,[5] and was named a Distinguished Professor[6][7] in 1997. He has visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the Humboldt University in Berlin and the National Cancer Institute. He was the founding director of the Texas A&M Center for Statistical Bioinformatics,[8] and has been the director of Texas A&M Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science since 2010.[9] He holds an honorary doctorate from the Institut de Statistique, Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.[10][11]

Carroll's many areas of research include measurement error model, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, inverse problem, functional data analysis, case-control studies, among others. His work has a broad variety of application fields, including radiation and nutritional epidemiology, molecular biology, genomics and many others. He has authored or coauthored four books,[12] over 300 refereed papers and has given over 300 invited talks. He has supervised and mentored more than 30 Ph.D. students[13] and can claim more than 90 descendants in his mathematical genealogy.[14]

He received the COPSS Presidents' Award[15] in 1988 and gave the Fisher Lecture[16] at the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings. He was the first statistician given a Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award from the National Cancer Institute.[17] He served as editor of Biometrics[18] and Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods),[19][20] and chair of ASA's Section on Nonparametric Statistics.[21] A conference on "Statistical Methods for Complex Data" was held on the Texas A&M University campus in honor of Carroll in 2009.[22] In the same year, the Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award was established to honor Carroll for his fundamental contributions in many areas of statistical methodology and practice.[23] The award is given bi-annually on odd numbered years to a statistician who has made important contributions to the area of statistics, with the recipients being Samuel Kou and Marc A. Suchard, both are also COPSS Presidents' Award recipients.[24] Ray Carroll was in the selection committee of COPSS Presidents' Award during that period.

Personal life

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Carroll is married to Texas A&M behavioral scientist Marcia G. Ory.[25]

Honors and awards

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Bibliography

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  • Carroll, Raymond; Ruppert, David (1988). Transformation and Weighting in Regression. London: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-0412014215.
  • Carroll, Raymond; Ruppert, David; Stefanski, Leonard (1995). Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models. London: Chapman and Hall.
  • Ruppert, David; Wand, Matthew; Carroll, Raymond (July 2003). Semiparametric Regression. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521785167.
  • Carroll, Raymond; Ruppert, David; Stefanski, Leonard; Crainiceanu, Ciprian (2006). Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models: A Modern Perspective (2 ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781584886334.
  • Liang, Faming; Liu, Chuanhai; Carroll, Raymond (August 2010). Advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Learning from Past Samples. Wiley. ISBN 9780470748268.

References

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  1. ^ Shanti S. Gupta
  2. ^ Department of Statistics directory of Raymond J. Carroll
  3. ^ Department of Nutrition and Food Science faculty list
  4. ^ Interdisciplinary Faculty of Toxicology, Texas A&M University
  5. ^ Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. Editors: Alan Agresti, Xiao-Li Meng. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-3649-2. Texas A&M Department of Statistics by Simon J. Sheather and Jennifer South, page 304.
  6. ^ Distinguished Professors from the College of Science, Texas A&M University
  7. ^ List of Distinguished Professors at Texas A&M University Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Texas A&M Center for Statistical Bioinformatics homepage
  9. ^ Raymond J. Carroll's IAMCS page
  10. ^ a b "Conference on "Quantitative methods in statistics, biostatistics and actuarial sciences"". uclouvain.be. 2012. We are pleased to announce that the degree of Doctor honoris causa will be conferred to Professor Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University, and Professor Paul Embrechts, ETH Zürich.
  11. ^ a b Carroll Receives Honorary Doctorate from Belgian University
  12. ^ Raymond J. Carroll's books
  13. ^ See "Ph.D. STUDENTS AND CURRENT EMPLOYMENT" section of his CV for a list of his former and current students.
  14. ^ Raymond James Carroll at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  15. ^ a b Past Presidents' Award Recipients Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ a b Past Fisher Lecture Recipients Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ a b MERIT Award Recipient: Raymond J. Carroll, Ph.D.
  18. ^ Biometrics Vol. 53, No. 4 Front Matter
  19. ^ JASA Volume 84, Issue 405, 1989, Editorial Board Page
  20. ^ JASA Volume 85, Issue 412, 1990 Editorial Board Page
  21. ^ Past Officers of Section on Nonparametric Statistics, ASA
  22. ^ Homepage of "Conference on Statistical Methods for Complex Data"
  23. ^ Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award
  24. ^ Harvard Statistician Receives Inaugural Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award
  25. ^ Hutchins, Shana K. (October 27, 2015). "Texas A&M Faculty Couple Funds Fellowship for Graduate Students in Statistics". tamus.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
  26. ^ AAAS Council Elects 388 New AAAS Fellows
  27. ^ Four Science Faculty Among Seven Texas A&M Profs Elected AAAS Fellows
  28. ^ Mitchell Prize
  29. ^ a b "Wavelet-Based Nonparametric Modeling of Hierarchical Functions in Colon Carcinogenesis" by Jeffrey S.Morris, Marina Vannucci, Philip J.Brown and Raymond J. Carroll
  30. ^ Raymond J. Carroll Receives 2003 Sacks Award
  31. ^ Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research
  32. ^ Past Snedecor Award Recipients
  33. ^ "A Semiparametric Mixture Approach to Case-Control Studies with Errors in Covariables" by Kathryn Roeder, Raymond J. Carroll and Bruce G. Lindsay
  34. ^ 1994 Distinguished Alumnus Raymond J. Carroll
  35. ^ List of Don Owen Award winners
  36. ^ Honored IMS Fellows
  37. ^ American Statistical Association Fellows
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