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Norman L. Johnson
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Alumni Distinguished
Professor Emeritus
B.Sc. (1936), B.Sc. (1937), M.Sc. (1938), Ph.D. (1948), D.Sc. (1963), University College, London.
Positions
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University College, London (1938-39, 1945-62); London
Ordnance Board (1939-45); UNC-Chapel Hill (1962- )
Honors and Awards
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Fellow, Institute of Actuaries (London); Fellow, ASA; Shewhart Medal,
American Society for Quality Control; Wilks Award, American Statistical
Association.
Research Interests
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Johnson's major interests are in distribution theory and applications of
statistical methods in industrial experimentation, quality assurance and
actuarial investigations.
Selected Publications
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Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (with S. Kotz and C.B. Read),
10 vols., (1982-89), Wiley, New York.
Process Capability Indices (with S. Kotz), Chapman and Hall, London (1993).
Univariate Discrete Distributions (with S. Kotz and A.W. Kemp), Wiley, New York (1993).
Continuous Univariate Distributions (with S. Kotz and N. Balakrishnan), Wiley, New York (1994-5).
The ASA Continuing Education Distinguished Lecture Series featured the videotape "An Interview with Norman L. Johnson" at the 1995 Joint Statistical Meetings held in Orlando in August 1995.
Multivariate Discrete Distributions (with S. Kotz), Wiley, New York (1997).
Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences (from the Seventeenth Century to the Present), (with S. Kotz), Wiley, New York (1997).
(Revised June 3, 1997)