R. Dennis Cook

Ralph Dennis Cook (born June 20, 1944) is an American statistician, mostly known for Cook's distance[1] and the Cook–Weisberg test.[2] Cook is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Minnesota.

Ralph Dennis Cook
Born	June 20, 1944
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Montana State University Kansas State University
Known for	Cook's distance Cook–Weisberg test
Scientific career
Doctoral students	Francesca Chiaromonte

After graduating from Northern Montana College, Cook earned his master's and Ph.D. from Kansas State University.[3] His dissertation, The Dynamics of Finite Populations: The Effects of Variable Selection Intensity and Population Size on the Expected Time to Fixation and the Ultimate Probability of Fixation of an Allele, was supervised by Raj Nassar.[4]

In 1982 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5]

References

1. Cook, R. Dennis (February 1977). "Detection of Influential Observations in Linear Regression". Technometrics. American Statistical Association. 19 (1): 15–18. doi:10.2307/1268249. JSTOR 1268249. MR 0436478.
2. Cook, R. D.; Weisberg, S. (1983). "Diagnostics for Heteroscedasticity in Regression". Biometrika. 70 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1093/biomet/70.1.1. hdl:11299/199411.
3. Curriculum Vitae: R. Dennis Cook
4. R. Dennis Cook at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-10-15.

External links

• Website at University of Minnesota