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David Ruppert
Raymond J. CarrollDepartment of Statistics
Faculty of Nutrition
Texas A&M Universityhttp://stat.tamu.edu/~carroll
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• Thesis: 30 pages long, 1977 (rate buster)– Topic: Stochastic approximation
• Interviews at UNC– RJC at talk: “What will you work on next”: “I
think I will try to generalize the work to Hilbert spaces” (honest, I am not making this up!)
• 1979: Thesis published in Annals– ?? references
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• 1980: First DR-RJC paper, quantile regression– ?? Citations
• 1981: 2nd SA paper in Annals– ?? Citations
• 1982: 3rd SA paper, Ann Prob– ?? Citations
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• 1981: Biometrika paper on transformations and their meaning– ?? Citations
• 1984: Transform both sides model– Done while canoeing in New Jersey, of all
things– Led to book in 1988– ?? Citations
• 1985: The Menhaden fishery and SA: a classic DR applied paper
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• 1987: Dave and Ray party, complete with napkins: “We are out of here you idiots” (JF should have learned earlier)
• 1989: Berkson model identification in nonlinear models (with Rudemo and Streiberg)
• 1990: Jed Frees thesis paper on SA in JASA
• 1995: Ruppert, Sheather, Wand– Need I say more?– ?? Citations
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• 1997: EBBS– Still in wide use, default bias estimation method– ?? Citations
• 2002: How many knots?– The classic DR paper: definitive and highly
quotable– ?? Citations
• 2008: Asymptotics of penalized splines– No one thought this was even possible– Now papers say they should have done it better!
1975: note the camera. Compare with what he has now
1975: at Michigan State with Patricia
1982, how could I resist? Me and Ruppert!
1985?. Note the concentration
Softball Star, or police lineup
1985: “Camping is housekeeping under adverse circumstances” (DR)
1991, Sydney Harbour
1991 (with Ray Cressie, Noel’s father). The hottest summer I have ever spent. The Canberra folks say “it’s a dry heat”. We Texas folks say: “darn, it’s hot”. The long sleves are because of the solar radiation
With Rick Rossi, Lake Yellowstone, ca 1994. Opening day at Pelikan Creek
Yellowstone river, ca 1996Re teaching: “Never try to teach a pig how to sing: it wastes your time, and annoys the pig” (DR). Most assistant professors should take this advice to heart and quit torturing students.
Hill above the Yellowstone River, ca 1996, having survived a long climb (no fish)
With Rick Rossi, 1999, College Station, at Messina Hof
DR saw the grey and decided to shave it off!
I just thought he should trim it
Rocket Man: no beard
Bunny Man: watch out for the killer rabbits
Original Ruppert Photo, Hanging in suite 525, TAMU
We also have a fabulous bluebird in snow
Get him to show you his cameras
Ruppert edited photo, hanging in Carroll-Ory house, 4 feet by 3 feet
Davis (me and Jianqing had wine, hence the goofy looks), ca 2006
2007 with Matt Wand (note those drinkers )
Official photo (he bought his first tie for this photo)
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