George Casella Professor & Chair Department of Statistics  University of Florida  P.O. Box 118545  Gainesville, FL 32611-8545    PHONE: (352) 392-1941 ext 204  FAX: (352) 392-5175  E-MAIL: casella "at" stat "dot" ufl "dot" edu Personal HomePage: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~casella/

George Casella is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He is active in many aspects of statistics, having contributed to theoretical statistics in the areas of decision theory and statistical confidence, to environmental statistics (running an NIH-funded doctoral training program in that subject), and has more recently concentrated efforts in statistical genomics. He also maintains active research interests in the theory and application of Monte Carlo and other computationally-intensive methods. Casella has been very active in teaching, and has developed a number of courses, including a computer-intensive freshman-level introduction to mathematical and statistical problems in biology. In 1999 he won a State University of New York Chancellor Award for Excellence in Teaching, and has recently been listed as an ISI “Highly Cited Researcher”.

Casella has also served as associate editor of The American Statistician, Statistical Science and the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA); and also on the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Council, and has chaired the ASA committee on Constitutional Revision and the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment. He was the Theory and Methods Editor of JASA, 1996-1999 and the Executive Editor of Statistical Science, 2001-2004, and a member of the Board on Mathematical Sciences of the National Research Council. Casella has authored four textbooks: Variance Components, 1992, with S. R. Searle and C. E. McCulloch; Theory of Point Estimation, Second Edition, 1998, with Erich Lehmann, and Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, Second Edition 2004, with Christian Robert, and Statistical Inference Second Edition, 2001, with Roger Berger. His new book project is Statistical Analysis of Genetic Data.

Honors and Professional Activities

• Fellow, American Statistical Association
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics


• Arun Varma Commemorative Term Professor, University of Florida
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Biological Statistics, Cornell University


• Member of the Board on Mathematical Sciences, National Research Council

• Decision Theory
• Statistical Confidence
• Environmental Statistics

• Statistical Inference, 2nd Ed., Brooks/Cole (1990), with Roger Berger
• Variance Components, Wiley (1992), with Searle and McCulloch
• Theory of Point Estimation, 2nd Ed., Springer Verlag (1998), with Erich Lehmann
• Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, Springer Verlag (1999), with Christian Robert

• B.A. (1972) Fordham University, Mathematics
• M.S. (1974) Purdue University, Applied Statistics
• Ph.D. (1977) Purdue University, Mathematical Statistics

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