A Conversation with Myles Hollander

TL;DR

This paper is a detailed interview with statistician Myles Hollander, highlighting his career, research contributions, editorial roles, and impact on nonparametric statistics and related fields.

Contribution

It provides an in-depth personal and professional overview of Hollander's work, emphasizing his influence in nonparametric statistics and academic leadership.

Findings

Hollander published over 100 papers in statistics.

He served as editor for major statistical journals.

His research received significant federal support.

Abstract

Myles Hollander was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 21, 1941. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1961 with a B.S. in mathematics. In the fall of 1961, he entered the Department of Statistics, Stanford University, earning his M.S. in statistics in 1962 and his Ph.D. in statistics in 1965. He joined the Department of Statistics, Florida State University in 1965 and retired on May 31, 2007, after 42 years of service. He was department chair for nine years 1978-1981, 1999-2005. He was named Professor Emeritus at Florida State upon retirement in 2007. Hollander served as Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, 1994-1996, and was an Associate Editor for that journal from 1985 until he became Theory and Methods Editor-Elect in 1993. He also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (1993-1997; 2003-2005) and Lifetime Data Analysis (1994-2007). Hollander has published over 100 papers on nonparametric statistics, survival analysis, reliability theory, biostatistics, probability theory, decision theory, Bayesian statistics and multivariate analysis. He is grateful for the generous research support he has received throughout his career, most notably from the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Institutes of Health.