Symposium on Fitting Statistical Distributions to Data (FSDD2006)

Date: March 5, 2006 to March 11, 2006

Hosted by:  Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University

Organizer: Dr. Edward J. Dudewicz

Biosketches:

Mark E. Johnson:                                

Dr. Mark E. Johnson is Professor of Statistics at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.  Previously, he was Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Extended visits have taken place at the University of Arizona, University of Minnesota, University of Toulouse, and the National Hurricane Center/Tropical Prediction Center.  He holds BA, MS and PhD degrees from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Professor Johnson is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Chartered Statistician with the Royal Statistical Society, and has received the Jack Youden, T. Saaty, Shewell and Brumbaugh prizes for his research.  His publications have appeared in such journals as Technometrics, J. of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics, J. of the Royal Statistical Society, and J. of Quality Technology.

He is the author of the book Multivariate Statistical Simulation (1987) published by John Wiley & Sons and was Editor of the book Simulated Annealing & Optimization:  Modern Algorithms with VLSI, Optimal Design & Missile Defense Applications.  He is presently on the editorial board of the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, and formerly on boards of the Journal of Quality Technology, Environmental Science and Health, Operations Research and Technometrics.  Dr. Johnson is best known for his research on multivariate distributions, but has also contributed to discriminant analysis, optimal design of experiments, simulated annealing, survival analysis, lack of fit measures and for applied statistical research in the context of applications, especially catastrophe modeling.  

In international statistical standards, he is the convenor of the working group to revise ISO 3534/3 Statistics -- Vocabulary and Symbols -- Design of Experiments and is an active participant on the United States Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 69, serving as the lead USA delegate for Subcommittee 1 (SC 1) on terms and nomenclature.  In this capacity, he prepares the United States’ position on documents emanating from SC 1.  

Dr. Johnson's current and recent consulting clients include the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology, Agency for Health Care Administration (State of Florida), the Organization of American States, Motorola, IBM, Kinetic Analysis Corporation, ChepUSA, Coca-Cola Foods, Lockheed-Martin, and various attorneys, for whom he is retained as an expert witness.  He is certified to teach black belt statistics short courses for Motorola.