Alan Agresti
Alan Gilbert Agresti is an American statistician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida. He has written several textbooks on categorical data analysis that are considered seminal in the field.
The Agresti–Coull confidence interval for a binomial proportion is named after him and his doctoral student Brent Coull.Biography
Agresti earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1968. He earned his doctorate in statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972. His doctoral advisor was Stephen Stigler and his thesis work was on stochastic processes.
He was a professor of statistics for many years at the University of Florida, from 1972 until his retirement in 2010 as a Distinguished Professor. He was also a visiting professor at the department of statistics at Harvard University for several years.
He wrote the textbook Categorical Data Analysis during a sabbatical year at Imperial College.Honors and awards
He became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990 and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2008.
He received an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University in 1999.Personal life
His wife is Jackie Levine.Selected works
Textbooks
Agresti has written several books on categorical data analysis, including An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis and Categorical Data Analysis.
Other textbooks include the following:
