Education and Professional Experience

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Education

• BSc (Mathematics, with distinction), 1972
  University of Calgary.  
• MSc (Mathematical Logic), 1974
  University of Calgary.
  Thesis entitled Diophantine Characterizations of the Perfect Numbers.
  Thesis supervisor Jim Jones.
• MSc (Statistics), 1979
  University of Calgary.
  Thesis entitled Distributions for a Two-Unit Repairable System.
  Thesis supervisor Ernest Enns.  
• PhD (Statistics), 1982
  University of Calgary.
  Thesis entitled Robust Estimation of Multivariate Location and Scale in the Presence of Asymmetry.
  Thesis supervisor John Collins.  
• Generalized Linear Models short course
  American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 1983 
• Society of Actuaries courses 100, 110, 120.
  

Professional Experience

• Professor
  University of Alberta, 1992 – present; emeritus since July 1, 2016. 
• Associate Professor
  University of Alberta, 1987 - 1992; tenured July 1, 1990. 
• Assistant Professor
  Dalhousie University, 1982 - 1987; tenured and appointed to Associate Professor on July 1, 1987. 
• Statistical consultant
  C.R. Winter Associates Limited, energy planning consultants, 1979 - 1981. 
• Sessional Instructor
  Department of Administration, Mount Royal College, Calgary, 1981.

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