Brent Andrew Coull is an American statistician and Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University.[1]
Brent Coull | |
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| Alma mater | University of Florida |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Subject-Specific Modelling of Capture-Recapture Experiments (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Agresti |
| Website | www |
Biography edit
He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Florida in 1997. His thesis advisor was Alan Agresti. He and his advisor came up with the Agresti–Coull interval, an approximate method for calculating binomial confidence intervals.[2]
Honors and awards edit
He was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010.[3]
References edit
- ^ "Brent Coull". Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ Agresti, Alan; Coull, Brent A. (1998). "Approximate Is Better than "Exact" for Interval Estimation of Binomial Proportions". The American Statistician. 52 (2): 119–126. doi:10.2307/2685469. ISSN 0003-1305. JSTOR 2685469.
- ^ "American Statistical Association Names Fellows for 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 17 May 2020.