Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino | |
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| Born | Ralph Benedict D'Agostino August 16, 1940 |
| Died | September 27, 2023 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Boston University (A.B. summa cum laude, 1962; A.M., 1964) Harvard University (Ph.D., 1968) |
| Known for | Biostatistics |
| Spouse |
LeiLanie Carta (m. 1965) |
| Children | Ralph Benedict LeiLanie Maria |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Statistical Association Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee Service Award (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics Epidemiology Mathematics |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Thesis | Estimation of Percentiles of Continuous Populations (1968) |
| Doctoral advisors | Frederick Mosteller William Gemmell Cochran |
| Doctoral students | Lisa M. Sullivan |
Ralph Benedict D'Agostino Sr. (August 16, 1940 – September 27, 2023) was an American biostatistician and professor of Mathematics/Statistics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Boston University. He was the director of the Statistics and Consulting Unit of the Framingham Study and the executive director of the M.A./Ph.D. program in biostatistics at Boston University. He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990 and of the American Heart Association in 1991.
His son, Ralph B. D'Agostino Jr., is also a biostatistician and fellow of the American Statistical Association (elected 2013).