statistics faculty at unc-ch
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Ross
Leadbetter
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Professor
Education
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B.Sc. (1953), M.Sc. (1954), University of New Zealand; B.A. (1958),
M.A. (1962), University of Cambridge; Ph.D. (1963), UNC-Chapel Hill.
Positions
New Zealand Applied Mathematics
Laboratory,
Wellington (1955-1956); Naval Research Laboratory, Auckland (1958-1960);
Research Triangle Institute, North Carolina (1961-1966); UNC-Chapel Hill
(1966-).
Honors and Awards
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Honorary Doctorate, Lund University; Fellow, ASA; Fellow, IMS; Member,
IMS Council; Member, ISI.
Research Interests
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Probability and statistics,
stochastic processes, extremal theory, statistical communication
theory; engineering, oceanographic, and environmental applications.
Representative Publications
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Books:
"Stationary and Related Stochastic Processes" (with Harald Cramer), Wiley, N.Y, 1967.
"Extremes and Related Properties of Random Sequences and Processes" (with G. Lindgren and H. Rootzen), Springer-Verlag, N.Y., 1983.
Articles:
Limit theorems for strongly mixing stationary random measures (with T. Hsing), Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 36 (1990), 231-243.
On a basis for 'Peaks over Threshold' modeling, Statistics and Probability Letters, 12 (1991), 357-362.
On central limit theory for families of strongly mixing additive random functions (with H. Rootzen), in "Festschrift in Honour of G. Kallianpur" (S. Cambanis, et al.,eds), Springer-Verlag, N.Y (1993), 211-223.
Extremes and exceedance measures for continuous parameter stationary processes, in "Extreme Value Theory and Applications" (J. Galambos et al., eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers (1994), 371-388.
On high level exceedance modeling and tail inference, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (1995),45, 247-260.
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