Robert L Taylor

Position:
Professor and Chair of Mathematical Sciences

Education:
PhD, Statistics, Florida State University, 1971
MS, Statistics, Florida State University, 1969
BS, Statistics and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, 1966

Professional Interests:
Research in Laws of Large Numbers, Estimation of Probability Density Functions, Stochastic Convergence and Validity of Bootstrap Estimators
Activities in Statistical Education and the College Board Advanced Placement Exam in Statistics

Professional Activities:
Fellow and Life Member of American Statistical Association; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Program Secretary or Probability Its Applications, 1987-89); South Carolina Chapter of ASA (President, 1978, 1979); Atlanta Chapter of ASA (Vice-Pres.1986-87, Pres.1987-88); Member of the American Mathematical Society; Southern Regional Committee on Statistics, Secretary (1989-91), President-Elect (1991-1993) President (1994-95), Past President (1996-97); SRCOS Paul Minton Service Award (2001); Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, 1993

Selected Publications:

• Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on the Inference for Stochastic Processes, IMS LECTURE NOTES, 37, (2001), Editors, I. V. Basawa, C. C. Heyde and R. L. Taylor.
• A strong law of large numbers for arrays of rowwise negatively dependent random variables. (2002) Stoch. Anal. And Appl.,20, 643-656 (with R. F. Patterson and A. Bozorgnia).
• Some strong and weak limit theorems for weighted sums of i.i.d. Banach space valued random elements with slowing varing weights. (2004) Stoch. Anal. and Appl. 22, 1111-1120 (with Andrew Rosalsky).

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Department of Mathematical Sciences.