Carl Morris is a professor in the Statistics Department of Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 and spent several years as a researcher for the RAND Corporation working on the RAND Health Insurance Experiment

RAND Health Insurance Experiment

The RAND Health Insurance Experiment was an experimental study of health care costs, utilization and outcomes in the United States, which assigned people randomly to different kinds of plans and followed their behavior, from 1974 to 1982. As a result, it provided stronger evidence than studies...

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Chronology

Carl Morris received his BS in statistics at California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...

 in 1960, attended Indiana University 1960-1962, and received his PhD in statistics from Stanford University under advisor Charles Stein in 1966.

Since 1990, Morris has been at Harvard Statistics Department and Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....

 Department of Health Care Policy. He served as the chair of the Harvard Statistics Department 1994-2000.

Morris has also been a professor at University of California at Santa Cruz, the RAND Graduate School, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin where he served as Director of the Center for Statistical Sciences.

Morris is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association

American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association , is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States...

, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and Royal Statistical Society

Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...

, and an elected member of ISI. Morris was Theory and Methods editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association

Journal of the American Statistical Association

The Journal of the American Statistical Association is the most prestigious journal published by the American Statistical Association, the main professional body for statisticians in the United States...

 (1983–1985) and Statistical Science

Statistical Science

Statistical Science is a review journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The founding editor was Morris H. DeGroot.-External links:*...

 (1989–1991).

Morris is best known for his work on natural exponential families

Natural exponential family

In probability and statistics, the natural exponential family is a class of probability distributions that is a special case of an exponential family...

 with quadratic variance functions (NEF-QVF), a theory which classifies the most common statistical distributions.
Morris is also well-known for his work in sports statistics.