Following a distinguished career in the Department of Statistics, Professor
Duane Meeter will retire from the Florida State University in April 2002.
On Saturday, April 20, the Department of Statistics at the Florida State
University hosted Duane Meeter Day in recognition of his professional accomplishments
and in deep appreciation of his contributions.
Duane served as the department chairperson from 1993 to 1996. In his
term, the department identified interdisciplinary research as a new area
of emphasis. He also served as the Director of Statistical Consulting Center
of the department from 1975 to 1993. Duane won a University Teaching
Award in 1986 and a Teaching Incentive Program Award in 1994.
Duane Meeter Day consisted of reminiscences by invited friends and colleagues
of Professor Meeter, including Mary Baggett, Frances James, Myles Hollander,
Fred Leysieffer, Xu-Feng Niu, Douglas Zahn, and Blake Whitten. Brad
Jones spoke briefly and played the violin. Special talks were given
by Carol and Erica (the Meeter daughters) who also performed a duet on
the flute and oboe as a gift to their father.
Duane's Ph.D. students graduated:
BAGGETT, MARY, Department of Mathematics, University of
Mississippi, Oxford, Estimation and Testing for the Doubly Truncated Logistic
Distribution (D. Meeter, 1997).
CHEN, CHING-HSIANG , Department of Statistics, Tamkang
University, Tamsui, Taiwan, R.O.C.. Identifying Influential Effects in
Factorial Experiments with Sixteen Runs: Empirical Bayes Approaches (D.
Meeter and P. Lin, 1994).
BURR, THOMAS.Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, New
Mexico. Estimating and
Modeling Gene Flow for a Spatially Distributed Species
(Meeter, 1992).
LEE, STEPHEN. Mathematics Department, University of Idaho,
Moscow, Idaho. Estimation andTesting for Some Non-Linear Time Series Biological
Population Models (Meeter, 1991).
NORRIS, JAMES L. III . Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Estimation of the Number
of Classes of Objects Through Presence/Absence Data (Meeter, 1990).
RAMAKRISHNAN, VISWANATHAN . Department of Biostatistics
and Massey Cancer
Center, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA. . Analysis of Cross-classified Data Using Negative
Binomial Models (Meeter, 1989).
CLAIR, JAMES. Merck, Sharpe and Dohme Research Labs, West
Point, PA. Simultaneous Quantile Testing (Meeter, 1988).
DANAHER, PETER J . Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Auckland, New Zealand. Estimating the Audience for a Magazine
Advertising Campaign (Meeter, 1987).
SINCLAIR, DENNIS F. Sinclair Associates, Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia. Tests of Displacement and Ordered Mean Hypotheses (Meeter,
1982).
COOPER, PAUL GAYLORD. (Deceased). Two-Way Cluster Analysis
for Nominal Data(Meeter, 1980).
BLOT, WILLIAM J . International Epidemiology Institute,LTD,
Rockville, Maryland. Sequential Experimental Design Procedures (Meeter,
1970).
