Saturday, April 20, 2002
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).