Rand R. Wilcox

  • Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-2258

Expertise Summary

  • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute
  • Association for Psychological Science fellow

Expertise

  • Statistical methods, particularly robust methods for comparing groups and studying associations, non-parametric and rank-based, regression smoothers, and robust methods for characterizing multivariate data.

Additional Information

  • 14 statistics books
  • Over 350 journal articles
  • Associate editor for 5 statistics journals
  • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute
  • Created the R package WRS
  • Author of New Statistical Procedures for the Social Sciences (1987), Statistics for the Social Sciences (1996), Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing (1997) and Basic Statistics: Fallacies Insights and Major Developments (forthcoming)
  • Fellow, Royal Statistical Society and American Psychological Society