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 http://faculty.smu.edu/rbutler
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.

Curriculum

Personal Home Page   (See this page for STAT 2331)

      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 --  See PERSONAL HOME PAGE for Syllabus
  • STAT 4340 - Stat for Engineering and Scientists
  • STAT 6370 -- Stochastic Models

 

 

 

 

Selected Publications

BOOK:

Butler, R.W. (2007). Saddlepoint Approximations with Applications (564 pp.). Cam­bridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics, Cambridge University Press.

Articles:

  1. Abd-Elfattah, E.F. and Butler, R.W. (2007). The weighted log-rank class of permutation tests: p-values and confidence intervals using saddlepoint methods. Biometrika 94 543-551.

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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

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