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Ralph B. D'Agostino
Born
Ralph Benedict D'Agostino

(1940-08-16) August 16, 1940 (age 83)[1]
Somerville, Massachusetts[1]
NationalityUnited States
EducationBoston University (A.B. summa cum laude, 1962; A.M., 1964)
Harvard University (Ph.D., 1968)
Known forBiostatistics
Spouse
Lei Lanie Carta
​
(m. 1965)​
[1]
ChildrenRalph Benedict[1]
LeiLanie Maria[1]
AwardsFellow of the American Statistical Association[1]
Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee Service Award (2008)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Epidemiology
Mathematics
InstitutionsBoston University
ThesisEstimation of Percentiles of Continuous Populations (1968)
Doctoral advisorsFrederick Mosteller[3]
William Gemmell Cochran[3]

Ralph Benedict D'Agostino Sr. (born August 16, 1940) is an American biostatistician and professor of Mathematics/Statistics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Boston University. He is also the director of the Statistics and Consulting Unit of the Framingham Study and the executive director of the M.A./Ph.D. program in biostatistics at Boston University.[2] He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990 and of the American Heart Association in 1991.[1]

His son, Ralph B. D'Agostino Jr., is also a biostatistician and fellow of the American Statistical Association (elected 2013).

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Ralph Benedict D'Agostino Sr., PhD". Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  2. ^ a b "Ralph D'Agostino Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  3. ^ a b "Ralph D'Agostino". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
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