Robert V. Hogg

Robert V. Hogg
Born8 November 1924
Hannibal, Missouri, United States
Died23 December 2014(2014-12-23) (aged 90)
Alma materUniversity of Iowa (Ph.D.)
University of Illinois
Known foreponymous textbooks ("Hogg & Craig" and "Hogg and Tanis")

Statistics education
Robust and nonparametric statistics

Early version of Basu's theorem
Childrenfour, including Rob Hogg[1]
AwardsGottfried Noether Award 2001 (nonparametrics)

President of American Statistical Association 1988
Founder's Award of the American Statistical Association 1991
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Carver Medal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
Distinguished Teaching Award of the Mathematical Association of America
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Iowa
Doctoral advisorAllen Thornton Craig

Robert Vincent ("Bob") Hogg (8 November 1924 – 23 December 2014)[2] was an American statistician and professor of statistics of the University of Iowa. Hogg is known for his widely used textbooks on statistics (with his 1963 Ph.D. student Elliot Alan Tanis) and on mathematical statistics (with his 1950 Ph.D. advisor Allen Thornton Craig). Hogg has received recognition for his research on robust and adaptive nonparametric statistics and for his scholarship on total quality management and statistics education.[3]

  1. ^ "Rob Hogg".
  2. ^ Colleagues, family remember a statistical giant
  3. ^ Randles, Ronald Herman (2007). "A Conversation with Robert V. Hogg". Statistical Science. 22 (1): 137–152. arXiv:0708.3974. doi:10.1214/088342306000000637. S2CID 58589782.

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