Dr. Jay Conover

Research Interests

Statistics

Biography

Before getting his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics at Catholic University in Washington D. C., 1964, Dr. Conover taught as a TA at Iowa State University, and as an Instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. His first tenure track position was at Kansas State University, where he taught in the Statistics Department for 9 and a half years before joining the Texas Tech Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 1973. His research interests are in applied statistics, and especially in nonparametric methods. He is a Highly Cited Researcher according to ISI, with over 30,000 citations to his books and papers. He has consulted with various pharmaceutical companies, and has done extensive consulting with several national laboratories including especially Los Alamos, Sandia in Albuquerque, Hanford Lab in Richland Washington, and Oak Ridge Lab in Tennessee. He has held visiting positions at the University of California at Davis, and the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He is listed in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.