Statistics and Mathematics: Tension and Cooperation

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid S. MooreDAVID S. MOORE is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Cornell, both in mathematics. His scholarly interests have moved from statistical large sample theory toward statistics education, driven both by middle age and by strong interests in technology. He was 1998 president of the American Statistical Association.George W. CobbGEORGE W. COBB is Robert L. Rooke Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Mount Holyoke College. He has an A.B. in Russian from Dartmouth, MS in Biometry from the Medical College of Virginia, and Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard. Like his co-author Moore, Cobb is being driven somewhere by middle age, but he is still waiting to discover where that may be. He has chaired the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics, and currently serves on the National Research Council's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.