Professional Activities

• Scholarly Journals
  • Associate Editor, Technometrics, 1975—1979
  • Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1980—1981
  • Associate Editor, SIAM Journal of Scientific and Statistical Computing, 1980—1982
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • Committee on Special Papers, 1974—1981 (Chair, 1976—77, 1980—81)
  • Program Chair, 1978 Annual Meeting, San Diego
• American Statistical Association
  • Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Research, June 1980—December 1982
  • Biopharmaceutical Section Executive Committee, American Statistical Association, January 1984—1987.
  • Subcommittee on Regional Meetings, American Statistical Association, November 1984—1986.
• National Research Council
  • Panel on Skin Cancer Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Science, 1974—1979.
  • Committee to Review the Structure and Performance of the Health Effects Institute, October 1991—December 1992.
  • Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years, February—August, 2006
• Science Advisory Board of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency:
  • Panel to Review the "Community Health and Environmental Surveillance System", November 1974—March 1975
  • Health Effects Research Review Group, July 1978—January 1979
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NASA/WMO Ozone Trends Panel, January 1987-1990. (Chairman, Statistical Issues Working Group, and Lead author, Appendix on Statistical Issues).
  • NASA CFC Concentration, Trends, and Lifetimes Panel, February 1991—1993. (Lead author, Chapter 3 of report).
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Panel on Section 8, WG1, First Assessment Report, January 1990—December 1990.
  • Panel on Section 8, WG1, Second Assessment Report, August 1994—November 1995.