2003 Distinguished Alumnus Roger L. Berger

Ph.D. 1977; M.S. 1975

Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University

Roger Berger is a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He joined North Carolina State in 1983, following six years in the Department of Statistics at Florida State University. He has published a long list of refereed journal articles and presented more than 50 invited scientific talks. In 2002, he co-authored the book Statistical Inference, Second Edition, with George Casella, another Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient from the Department of Statistics. He and Dr. Casella, along with Damaris Santana, also produced the Solutions Manual on CD-ROM for Casella and Berger’s Statistical Inference, Second Edition. Dr. Berger is the editor of Statistical Science and has served as associate editor of both the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Biometrics. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society. In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and in 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and in 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received his M.S. in 1975 and the Ph.D. in 1977 in Statistics at Purdue.

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