Smythe, Robert T

Statistics Department
Oregon State University 
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4606  

Voice: (541) 737-3480; FAX: (541) 737-3489;

Office: Kidder Hall, Room 46

smythe@science.oregonstate.edu

Education:

• Oberlin College, A.B. 1963
• Oxford University, B.A. 1965
• Stanford University,  Ph.D. 1969

Current Research Interests:

Biostatistics, (carcinogenicity, developmental toxicity), probabilistic analysis of algorithms, stochastic processes

Recent Doctoral Students:

1. Siwei Jia (2004), Optimization, Conservation and Valuation of Contingent Claims in Economic Resource Management under Uncertainty.
2. Ted Diaz (2000), Use of historical controls in testing for trend in multiple tumors.
3. Ravinder Anand (1998), Sequential Analysis of Longitudinal Data.

Recent Publications:

1. Itoh, Y., Mahmoud, H., and Smythe, R. T.,   Probabilistic analysis of maximal gap
   and total accumulated length in interval division, to appear in Statistics and Probability Letters (2006).
2. Smythe, R. T., A further note on runs in independent sequences, Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society 4, (2005), 51-56.
3. Smythe, R. T., The beta distribution in bioassay, in Handbook of beta distribution and its applications, ed. A. K. Gupta and S. Nadarajah, Dekker (2004), 437-455.
4. Smythe, R. T., On runs in independent sequences, Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society 2, (2003), 43-52.
5. Krewski, D., Smythe, R. T., and Fung, K.Y., Optimal designs for estimating the effective dose in developmental toxicity experiments, Risk Analysis 22, (2002), 1195-1205.
6. Smythe, R. T., and Wellner, Jon A., Asymptotic analysis of (3,2,1)-Shell Sort, Random Structures & Algorithms 21, (2002), 59-75.
7. Wellner, Jon A. and Smythe, R. T., Computing the covariance of two Brownian area integrals, Statistica Neerlandica 56, (2002), 101-109.

Instructional & Departmental Activities:

Department Chair

Recent teaching has included:

• ST 561-562 (Mathematical Statistics)
• ST 661 (Advanced Theory of Statistics)
• ST 351H (Introduction to Statistical Methods, Honors College)
• ST 599 (Statistics for Bioinformatics)

Professional Societies:

• American Statistical Association (Fellow)
• Institute for Mathematical Statistics (Fellow)
• International Statistical Institute
• AAAS