Dr. Jerald F. Lawless
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Waterloo
Election Year
2000
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Keywords
Survival analysis, reliability, event history analysis, biostatistics, stochastic models.
Jerald Franklin Lawless has made major and deep contributions to the theory and practice of statistics. He is internationally recognized, in both academia and industry, as one of the pre-eminent researchers in the field of reliability and survival analysis where he has identified and pioneered investigation in several important areas. He has also made many outstanding contributions to general statistical theory and methods. He has published many research articles in the strongest journals, books and conferences in his discipline and has authored a highly influential book on reliability. He also holds the NSERC/General Motors Industrial Research Chair in Quality and Productivity at the University of Waterloo.