Roger H. Farrell

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Web Site N/A Contact Information Office:  527 Malott Hall Phone:  (607) 255-2383 Fax:  (607) 255-7149 Email:  rhf1@math.cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1959) University of Illinois

Research Area: Mathematical statistics, measure theory

Retired as of July 1, 1999, I am still semi-active in the department and try to come in most days to audit classes and work some in the Math Support Center. I am not active in research.

My research concerned the application of decision theory methods to statistical problems to try and characterize completely good and bad methods of estimation and testing. Useful decision theory methods can involve development of inequalities, compactification of spaces, and study of the way sequences of measures converge.

Selected Publications

Proof of a necessary and sufficient condition for admissibility in discrete multivariate problems (with L. D. Brown), J. Mult. Annal. 24 (1988), 46–52.

All admissible linear estimators of the vector of gamma state parameters with application to random effects models (with W. Klonecki and S. Zontek), Ann. Statist. 17 (1989), 268–281.

A lower bound for the risk in estimating the value of a probability density (with L. D. Brown), Jour. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 85 (1990), 1147–1153.

Estimations of accuracy in testing (with J. T. G. Hwang, G. Casella, C. Robert and M. T. Wells), Ann. Statist. 20 (1992), 490–509.

Spitzer and Bohnenblust, revisited (1997), preprint.

Last modified: September 5, 2003