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Adrian E. Raftery
Adrian is Blumstein-Jordan Professor Emeritus of
Statistics
and Sociology
at the University of Washington.
He is also a faculty affiliate of the
Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and the
Center for Studies in Demography
and Ecology.
He works on the development of new statistical methods for
the social and environmental sciences.
An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,
he was identified as the world's most cited researcher in mathematics
for the decade 1995-2005 by Thomson-ISI. He has supervised
34 Ph.D. graduates,
of whom 21 hold or have held tenure-track university faculty positions,
and has over 160 academic descendants.
News
- ASA Section on Statistical Computing Keynote:
Adrian gave the keynote address at the Mini-Symposium of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association, on "Statistical Inference with Model Uncertainty", about work with Anupreet Porwal, in November 2024. Watch it here,
starting at 7:30.
- David Finney Lecture: Adrian delivered the
David Finney Lecture at the University of Edinburgh in October 2024.
- Code for Porwal & Raftery (2022):
Code to implement the experiments in
Porwal & Raftery (2022) is now available
here.
- Book freely available online: Our book, Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation Using mclust in R, is now
freely available
online.
- Emeritus status:
Adrian became Blumstein-Jordan Professor Emeritus of Statistics and
Sociology in September 2024, retiring from classroom teaching and
adminstration at the University of Washington.
- Career Celebration Conference: The Conference on Applied, Bayesian, Computational, Demographic and Environmental Statistics (ABCDE) to celebrate Adrian's career was
held on August 9, 2024 at the University of
Washington.
- Interview on UN population projections: The article
Developing and implementing the UN's probabilistic population projections as a milestone for Bayesian demography: An interview with Adrian Raftery,
by Monica Alexander, was published in Demographic Research
in July 2024.
- ISBA Fellow: Adrian was elected a Fellow of the
International Society for Bayesian
Analysis (ISBA) at the
2024 ISBA World Meeting
in July 2024.
- Psychometric Keynote address: Adrian gave a keynote address
at the
International Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Prague,
July 2024.
- Career interview:An interview with Adrian
about his career, by Leontine Alkema and Brendan Murphy, was published in the
International Statistical Review in October 2023.
(Also available on arXiv.)
- Hollander lecture: Adrian gave the
Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture at Florida State University in
October 2023.
- Website update: This website got its annual major update on May 7, 2024. New
publications were added.
Recent Book, Journal Articles, Preprints (since 2023)
(Full citations here.)
Book on mclust and model-based clustering:
Adrian's co-authored book
Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation Using mclust in R. was published by Chapman and Hall/CRC Press in April 2023.
It is also available on Amazon.
It is also freely available online.
Statistical methodology
Statistical demography
Note: These papers are being made available here to facilitate the timely
dissemination of scholarly work; copyright and all related rights are
retained by the copyright holders.
Updated November 12, 2024; last major update, May 7, 2024.
Copyright 2005-2024 by Adrian E. Raftery and University of Washington;
all rights reserved.