Dr. Ronald L. Iman is an American statistician

Statistician

A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

, currently president of Southwest Technology Consultants in Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

, New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

. He was previously president 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...

. He was one of the developers of the statistical technique known as Latin hypercube sampling

Latin hypercube sampling

Latin hypercube sampling is a statistical method for generating a distribution of plausible collections of parameter values from a multidimensional distribution. The sampling method is often applied in uncertainty analysis....

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Education

• PhD in Statistics from Kansas State University
• M.S. in Statistics from Kansas State University
• B.S. in Math Education from Kansas State University
• M.A. in Mathematics from Emporia State University

Books

• A Data-Based Approach to Statistics (1994)
• A Data-Based Approach to Statistics: Concise Version (1995)
• "Modern Business Statistics" with W. J. Conover, 2e (1989)
• "Modern Business Statistics" with W. J. Conover, (1983)
• "Introduction to Modern Business Statistics" with W. J. Conover, (1983)
• "A Modern Approach to Statistics" with W. J. Conover, (1983)

Professional Activities

Listed as Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information, 2004 www.isihighlycited.com

Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association, 1984-86, 1988–1991, 1993–1995

• President of the ASA, 1994; President-Elect, 1993; Past-President, 1995
• Treasurer of the ASA, 1988–1991
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Board, 1985-86, 1988–1991, 1993–1995, Chair 1994