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Roy
E. Welsch
Professor
of Statistics
and Management Science and Engineering
Systems
Professor
Roy E. Welsch received his A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton
and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford also in Mathematics.
He joined the MIT faculty in 1969 as an Assistant Professor,
became an Associate Professor four years later and was promoted
to Professor in 1979. He held the Leaders for Manufacturing
(now called Leaders for Global Operations) Chair from 1988
until 1993. From 1973 until 1979 he was also a Senior Research
Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research where
he participated in the development of the Troll econometric,
financial, and statistical modeling system. He was Co-Director
or Director of the MIT Statistics Center from 1981 until
1989.
Professor
Welsch is widely recognized for his book (with Edwin Kuh
and David Belsley) on regression diagnostics and for his
work on robust estimation, multiple comparison procedures,
nonlinear modeling, and statistical computing. He is currently
involved with research on robust process control and experimental
design, credit scoring models and risk assessment, diagnostics
for checking model and design assumptions, reliability measurement
in electronic commerce, and volatility modeling in financial
markets.
Professor
Welsch teaches data analysis and applied statistics focusing
on regression modeling, experimental design, and quality
control with financial and marketing applications.
Professor
Welsch is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
the American Statistical Association, and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
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