A. Richard Bolstein
Professor Richard Bolstein received the B.S. degree from Wagner College
in 1962, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1964
and 1967 respectively, all in mathematics. He taught at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before coming to George Mason University
in 1973. He was an Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, prior
to the creation of the Department of Operations Research and Applied
Statistics in 1986. He served as President of the Washington Operations
Research and Management Science Council in 1986-87. His major research
interests are in the design and analysis of sample surveys and the use
of functional analytic methods in statistical estimation and
optimization problems. He has been involved in large-scale national
surveys, election polling, and local surveys through both research
grants and as a consultant. He is currently funded by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to study the sample design of
and analytical methodology for the Marine Recreational Fishing
Statistical Survey. He designed the sampling methodology used by
the Virginia Department of Social Services to allocate Federal,
state, and local shares of social services costs. He was appointed to
a three person panel of expert statisticians in 1991 to analyze the problem
of non-response bias in the 1987-88 National Food Consumption Survey
conducted for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is under contract
with PWS-Kent Publishing Company to write a graduate-level text in
Survey Sampling. Dr. Bolstein has recently completed a term as an
associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
He is presently Associate Professor of Applied and Engineering Statistics.
