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R. Dennis Cook

American statistician
Person human Q20807224

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[12]
Date of birth
June 20, 1944
Country of citizenship
United States[3]
Occupation
statistician
Employer
University of Minnesota[5]
Field of work
statistics[4]
Educated at
Kansas State University, Montana State University–Northern[6][7]
Award received
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[9][10]
Doctoral advisor
Raja Faried Nassar[8]
Doctoral student
Weng Kee Wong, Chih-Ling Tsai, Robert E. Weiss, Michael L. Lavine, Francesca Chiaromonte, Xuerong Meggie Wen, Hakbae Lee, Roy T. St Laurent, Iain Pardoe, Xiangrong Yin, Lexin Li, Liqiang Ni, Messan Setodji, Richard Roy Picard, Pe-Cheng Wang, John William Thomas, Jorge Francisco de la Vega Gongora, Christopher John Nachtsheim, Vincent K Agboto, Jae Keun Yoo, Efstathia Bura, Yongwu Shao, Liliana Forzani, Daniel J. Eck[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[30]
Birth name
Ralph Dennis Cook[31]
Family name
Cook[27]
Given name
Ralph, Dennis[28][29]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[33]
Member of
Institute of Mathematical Statistics[11]
Name in native language
R. Dennis Cook[32]
🏷️ Also known as
en R. Dennis Cook en Ralph Dennis Cook ar آر. دنيس كوك cs Dennis Cook he ראלף דניס קוק zh 丹尼斯·库克 zh-hant 丹尼斯·庫克
🔖 Identifiers · 21
ISNI
0000000117614293
VIAF cluster ID
46836293
Library of Congress authority ID
n80074557
GND ID
172034078
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
123533743
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf10004605
DBLP author ID
38/6219
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11b8c2jwjr
IdRef ID
032519273
Libraries Australia ID
36086250
MR Author ID
51245
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
24932
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NL CR AUT ID
ctu2012692375
NUKAT ID
n01026080
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007450363805171
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
069200637
SHARE Catalogue author ID
89150
UOM ID
29868
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
person/e5d84134-f390-46d3-aa8b-c29bbb6f65d1
ZbMATH author ID
cook.r-dennis

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Given name 2
Dennis, Ralph
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Educated at 1
Kansas State University
Employer 1
University of Minnesota
Family name 1
Cook
Instance of 1
human
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Member of 1
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Named after 1
Cook's distance
Occupation 1
statistician
Sex or gender 1
male
← Discoverer or inventor 1
Cook's distance
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Summary

R. Dennis Cook was born on June 20, 1944[1]. He has worked as a statistician[2].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for R. Dennis Cook include Cook's distance[34].

Why It Matters

He is credited with the discovery of Cook's distance[35]. Entities named for him include Cook's distance[34].

FAQs

What did R. Dennis Cook do for work?

R. Dennis Cook worked as a statistician[2].

Where did R. Dennis Cook go to school?

R. Dennis Cook was educated at Kansas State University[6] and Montana State University–Northern[7].

What awards did R. Dennis Cook receive?

Honors received include Fellow of the American Statistical Association[9] and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[10].

What did R. Dennis Cook discover?

R. Dennis Cook is credited as discoverer of Cook's distance[35].

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  1. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Fellows of the American Statistical Association database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Scientific Legacy Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  25. [11] ↑ . Scientific Legacy Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . Fellows of the American Statistical Association database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . Fellows of the American Statistical Association database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

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