Wayne Fuller

Life and work

Wayne Fuller was born the son of Loren Boyd Fuller and Elva Glady born Darrah. He studied agricultural economics at Iowa State University and earned his BS in 1955 there 1957 and his M. S. In 1959, he was there for the Ph.D. doctorate. He remained at Iowa State University, where he was an Assistant Professor (1959-1962), associate professor (1962-1966), Professor of Statistics and Economics (1966-1983) and Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Economics ( 1983-2001 ). He retired in 2001. Guest professorships led him in 1982 and 1991 at the University of Southampton and in 1994 to the University of New England. In addition to his career as a high school teacher, he also worked as a consultant.

Fuller works in the field of econometrics and time series analysis and survey sampling, measurement errors, and assessments in economics. With David Dickey Dickey -Fuller he developed the test.

In 1956 he married Evelyn Rosenstein Ford, with whom he has two sons.

Awards

• 2002 Waksberg Award

Memberships

Works (selection)

• Introduction to statistical time series. 2nd edition. Wiley, New York et al 1976; 1996, ISBN 0-471-55239-9.
• David A. Dickey, Wayne A. Fuller: Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series With a Unit Root. In: Journal of the American Statistical Association. Volume 74, No. 366, June 1979, pp. 427-431 ( digitized at jstor )
• David A. Dickey, Wayne A. Fuller: Likelihood Ratio Statistics for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit Root. In: Econometrica. Volume 49, No. 4, July 1981, pp. 1057-1072 ( digitized at jstor )
• Measurement Error Models. Wiley, New York et al 1987, ISBN 0-471-86187-1.
• Sampling statistics. Wiley, Hoboken 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-45460-2.