Ronald Butler
 

C.F. Frensley Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Department of Statistical Science 

 

Contact

Education
Department of Statistical Science
Southern Methodist University
3225 Daniels Avenue  (75205)
P O Box 750332 (75275)
Dallas TX 75275-0332
214-768-1426
214-768-4035  fax
email:     rbutler@smu.edu    
 B.S. (1972, cum laude) College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.   Major: Applied Mathematics, Minor: Engineering Physics. Sigma, Dean's List 5 times

Ph.D. (1977) Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.   Major: Statistics. Academic Honors: Rackham Scholar.

 

      Research Interests                                                Teaching

  • Survival Analysis
  • Special Functions & Complex Variables
  • Systems Theory & Stochastic Networks
  • Likelihood & Bayesian Inference
  • Saddlepoint Methods
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Reliability Theory
  • Bootstrap and Robustness
  • Electrical engineering applications
  • Ocean engineering applications
  • STAT 2331 -- Syllabus
  • STAT 6370 -- Stochastic Models

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Selected Publications

Butler, R.W. (2006). Saddlepoint Approximations with Applications (680 pp.). Cambridge University Press. To appear shortly.

Butler, R.W., Machado, U.B. and Rychlik, I. (2006) Distribution of wave crests in non-Gaussian sea. Applied Ocean Research. To appear.

Kraut, S., Scharf, L.L. & Butler, R.W. (2005). The adaptive coherence estimator: a uniformly-most-powerful-invariant adaptive detection statistic.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53, 427-438.

Butler, R.W. and Wood, A.T.A. (2005). Laplace approximations to hypergeometric functions of two matrix arguments. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 94, 1-18.

Butler, R.W. and Wood, A.T.A. (2005). Approximation of power in multivariate analysis. Statistics and Computing,  15, 281-287.

Butler, R.W. and Wood, A.T.A. (2004). Saddlepoint approximation for moment generating functions of truncated random variables. Annals of
Statistics, 32, 2712-2730.

Butler, R.W. and Wood, A.T.A. (2004). A dimensional CLT for non-central Wilks' lambda in multivariate analysis.  Scandinavian Journal of
Statistics, 31, 585-601.

Butler, R.W. (2004). Does the ``Sensitive Direction'' point to the likelihood ancillary? Comments on ``Ancillaries and Conditional Inference'' by
D.A.S. Fraser, Statistical Science, 19, 351-355.
 

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