Alan Agresti Distinguished Professor Emeritus Department of Statistics University of Florida 204 Griffin-Floyd Hall Gainesville, FL 32611-8545 PHONE: (352) 392-1941 ext 234 FAX: (352) 392-5175 E-MAIL: aa "at" stat "dot" ufl "dot" edu Personal Home Page: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~aa I will not be working for UF again until January, 2009. Until then I am not checking e-mail regularly, and I'm very sorry but I am unable to referee papers and grant proposals, prepare promotion reviews, give consulting advice about statistics and statistical software, etc.

Research Interests

• Categorical Data Analysis
• Generalized Linear Models
• Social Statistics
• Biostatistics

Honors

• Fellow, American Statistical Association
• Honorary doctorate, De Montfort University (Leicester, U.K.), 1999
• Statistician of the Year, Chicago chapter of American Statistical Association, 2003
• Recipient of the first Herman Callaert Leadership Award in Statistical Education and Dissemination, Hasselt University, Belgium, 2004

Selected Publications

• Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall (2008), with Chris Franklin.
• Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd edition, Wiley (2002).
• An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd edition, Wiley (2007).
• Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 4th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall (2008) (with B. Finlay).
• Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data, New York: Wiley (1984)

Other Information

The text Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (2nd edition, 2008) written with Christine Franklin, is designed for a one-term or two-term course on an introduction to statistics presented with a conceptual approach. More information, including a link to the Table of Contents and sample chapters, is available at my personal home page.

My text Categorical Data Analysis (second edition, 2002) is designed for a masters-level course on this topic. My personal home page, listed in the heading above contains a link to a website for the text that includes datasets, some solutions, and software information.

An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (second edition, 2007) presents a nontechnical introduction to topics such as logistic regression and loglinear models. For SAS files containing data sets from this text, go to my personal home page.

The fourth edition of my text Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (2008) is designed for a two-semester sequence in statistical methods. It begins with the basics of statistical description and inference, and the second half of the book concentrates on regression methods, including multiple regression, ANOVA and repeated measures ANOVA, analysis of covariance, logistic regression, and generalized linear models. For a file containing some of the large data sets from the text, go to my personal home page, listed in the heading above.

Statistics Department home page,

• UF-STATISTICS

Degrees

• B.A. University of Rochester, 1968
• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1972
• Honorary Doctor of Science, De Montfort University (Leicester, U.K.), 1999

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