Donald J. Wheeler is an American author, statistician and expert in quality control.''A Conversation with Donald J. Wheeler'', by William H. Woodall, Quality Engineering, Vol. 21 pages 357-365, 2009. Wheeler graduated from the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...

in 1966 and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

from

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. From 1970 to 1982 he taught in the Statistics Department at the

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, where he was an associate professor. Since 1982 he has worked as a consultant. He is the author of 22 textbooks. His books have been translated into five languages and are in use in over 40 countries. He has been invited to contribute to two state-of-the-art anthologies, and has had articles published in 16 refereed journals. He is a fellow of both the

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and

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. He was awarded the 2010 Deming Medal by the American Society for Quality. Wheeler has been a monthly columnist for both Quality Digest and ''Quality'' magazine. He has conducted over 1000 seminars for over 250 companies and organizations in 17 countries on five continents, and has had students come from 30 countries to attend his seminars in the United States.

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