Ph.D. (1955) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

W. Jackson Hall Professor of Biostatistics Professor Emeritus of Statistics     Contact Information: University of Rochester Dept of Biostatistics and Computational Biology 601 Elmwood Avenue Box 630 Rochester, New York 14642   Office: MRBX G-11124 Phone: (585) 275-3424 Fax: (585) 273-1031 E-mail: Hall@bst.rochester.edu

Research Interests

I joined the University of Rochester as Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics in 1969, after ten years of teaching at UNC Chapel Hill and two years at Stanford. Earlier, I spent two years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the USPHS.

My current statistical research interests are in large-sample theory and in sequential analysis, especially as applied in clinical trials. I collaborate extensively with researchers in the Heart Research Unit and in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, on clinical and epidemiological studies in cardiology. Additional on-going work is in the development of software programs to implement methodological innovations for sequential clinical trials.

I am a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. I have served as Associate Editor for the Annals of Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and have served on the IMS Council and on various committees for NSF, IMS and ASA.
 

Selected References

• Choi, S., Hall, W.J., and A. Schick (1996). Asymptotically uniformly most powerful tests in parametric and semiparametric models. Ann. Statist. 24, 841-861.
• Moss, A. J., Zareba, W., Hall, W.J., et al. (2002). Prophylactic implantation of a defibrillator in patients with myocardial infarction and reduced ejection fraction. N. Engl. J. Med. 346, 877-883. [Cited in editorial on pp 931-933.]
• Hall, W. J. and Liu, A. (2002). Sequential tests and estimates after overrunning based on maximum-likelihood ordering. Biometrika 89, 699-707.
• Yakir, B. and Hall, W.J. (2003). Testing for a treatment-by-stratum interaction in a sequential clinical trial. In: Crossing Boundaries: Statistical Essays in Honor of Jack Hall. J. Kolassa and D. Oakes, eds. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes Monograph Series, Vol. 43, pp 1-12.
• Hall, W.J. and Yakir, B. (2003). Inference about a secondary process after a sequential trial. Biometrika 90, 597-611.