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Murray Aitkin

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In 1981, he co-authored with Darrel Bock and published a paper titled: "Marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters: Application of an EM algorithm" to
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Between 2000 and 2002, he went on leave from Newcastle to take on the role of chief statistician at the Education Statistics Services Institute in Washington DC.
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in which he discussed GLMMs. It was one of first papers to discuss this topic and has received almost 3,000 citations.
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is an Australian statistician who specialises in statistical models. He attained his BSc, PhD, and DSc in
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Aitkin's research has been important with regards to different types of mixture models, such as
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structure (a type of structure which does not involve using set distributions) instead.
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for mathematical statistics in 1961, 1966 and 1997, respectively.
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Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
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Bock, R. Darrell; Aitkin, Murray (1 December 1981).
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Statistics
University of Melbourne
Sydney University
Sydney University
Newcastle University
Fulbright
Lancaster University
International Statistical Institute
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
generalised linear mixed models
normal distribution
nonparametric
Psychometrika




"Curriculum Vitae"


Mira, Antonietta
"Reflections on Murray Aitkin's contributions to nonparametric mixture models and Bayes factors"
doi
10.1177/1471082X20981312
ISSN
1471-082X
"Marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters: Application of an EM algorithm"
doi
10.1007/BF02293801
ISSN

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