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1349 OLMSTED HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Beaver, Robert J

Professor of Statistics & Statistician, Emeritus

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Statistics


Biography

 

Degrees

PhD Statistics 1970

University of Florida, Gainesville

MS Statistics 1966

University of Florida, Gainesville

MS Mathematics 1964

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

BS Secondary Education 1959

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsberg, Pennsylvania

Awards

UCR Graduate Student Association Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Riverside (1983-84)
Gamma Sigma Delta, University of California, Riverside
Pi Mu Epsilon, Mathematics Honorary, Bucknell University (1964)
Kappa Delta Pi, Education Honorary, Bloomsburg University (1959)


Research Area

Research Specialization - Recent research involves the generalized class of skewed distributions and their applications. This class includes the skewed normal, skewed Cauchy, and other distributions that are symmetric when the skewing parameters are zero. Current research involves rank set sampling and the use of the EM algorithm and Gibbs sampler in tests of hypotheses and estimation. In the past, he has pursued many topics in the area of paired comparison experiments including the handling of tied observations and possible order effects associated with treatments. Dr. Beaver is also interested in statistical modelling which has brought him into fruitful collaboration with other researchers in the college.

Publications

Arnold, B.C. and Beaver, R.J. 'The skew-Cauchy Distribution'. Statistics and Probability Letters. 49(3):285-290, Sep 2000

Arnold, B.C. and Beaver, R.J. 'Hidden Truncation Models'. Sankhya, Series A. 62(1): 23-35, 2000

Beaver, R.J. and Melgar,M. 'Analysis of Yield-Density Models for Intercropping Experiments'. Biometrical Journal. 41(8): 995-1011, 1999

Rahman, M., Beaver, R.J. and Gokhale, D.V. 'A Note on Estimating the Combining Constant in Semiparametric Density Estimation'. Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics. 11:37-50, 1997.