A. Richard Bolstein, Chair
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Department of Applied & Engineering Statistics MSN 4A7 Biographical Sketch Professor Bolstein received a B.A. from Wagner College (1962), an M.S. (1964) and Ph.D. (1967) from Purdue University, all in mathematics. He was an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the Department of Mathematics at GMU in 1973, where he designed a curriculum in Operations Research. After the founding of the School of Information Technology & Engineering in 1985, he moved to the Department of Operations Research and Applied Statistics, which split into separate departments in 1992. He has served as Chair of AES since 1999. Dr. Bolstein’s interest in statistics began in the mid 1980’s, largely due to the great demand for statisticians in the Washington Metropolitan Area. His research interests are in survey sampling and categorical data analysis. He is active as a consultant to federal and state agencies and the private sector. Dr. Bolstein designed the sampling methodology used by the U.S. Customs Service at all land border crossings and large international airports to measure compliance with U.S. laws, and is currently working with the Environmental Protection Agency to measure compliance of industrial facilities with the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Hazardous Waste statutes. He designed sampling plans used by the National Marine Fisheries Service to estimate recreational fishing activity. For the Virginia Department of Social Services, he designed random moment sampling methodology currently used to allocate the cost of social services among federal, state, and local governments. Professor Bolstein served as President of the Washington Operations Research and Management Science Council in 1986-87, Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1990-93 and Representative at Large to the Washington Statistical Society from 1993-95. He is currently serving as Secretary (2000-02) of the Southern Regional Council on Statistics, a compact of over 40 universities from Maryland to Texas that offer degree programs in statistics. He currently serves as Director of the George Mason University Statistical Consulting Center, founded in January 2001 to assist faculty across the University with statistical aspects of their research and grant proposals. Course Syllabi STAT 574: Survey Sampling I: Fall, 2001. STAT 674: Survey Sampling II: Spring, 2002. STAT 354: Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists II: Spring, 2001. |
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