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Brent Coull
Alma Mater:University of Florida
Thesis Title:Subject-Specific Modelling of Capture-Recapture Experiments
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Thesis Year:1997
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Doctoral Advisor:Alan Agresti
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Brent Andrew Coull is an American statistician and Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University.[1]

Biography

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

He was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brent Coull . Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health . 17 May 2020 . en-us.
  2. Agresti . Alan . Coull . Brent A. . Approximate Is Better than "Exact" for Interval Estimation of Binomial Proportions . The American Statistician . 1998 . 52 . 2 . 119–126 . 10.2307/2685469 . 2685469 . 0003-1305.
  3. Web site: American Statistical Association Names Fellows for 2010 . 17 May 2020.