Yadolah Dodge (, also as "Yadollāh Dāj") is an

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ian and

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. His major contributions are in the theory of

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, and regression.

Early life

He spent his early years in

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. He went then to the

Gundeshapur Gundeshapur (, ''Weh-Andiōk-Ŝābuhr''; New Persian: , ''Gondēshāpūr'') was the intellectual centre of the Sassanid Empire and the home of the Academy of Gundeshapur, founded by Sassanid Emperor Shapur I. Gundeshapur was home to a teaching hos ...

or Jundi Shapour University and obtained his Post Licentiate in Engineering in Agriculture in 1966 with distinction. He got his PhD at the

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in 1974.

Work

In the 1980s he became professor of statistics at the

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, Switzerland, where he is a

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. He is author of more than 60 papers and 25 books, many of which have appeared in multiple editions. Dodge, Yadolah
www.oclc.org © 2011 manual OCLC Online Computer Library Center In 2015 Professor Dodge started the 'Iranian Film Festival Zurich' in order to have a cultural exchange between Iran and Switzerland.

Selected publications

*Arthanari, T.S. and Y Dodge, Y. ''Mathematical Programming in Statistics'', Wiley, 1993. *Birkes, D. and Dodge, Y. ''Alternative Methods of Regression'', Wiley, 1993, *Dodge, Y., ''Analysis of Experiments with Missing Data'', John Wiley & Sons, 1985, . *Dodge, Y., and Jureckovà, J. ''Adaptive regression''. Springer-Verlag, 2000 . *Dodge, Y. (ed.), ''The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms'',

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, Oxford, 2003. *Dodge, Y. and Rousson, V. ''Analyse de regression appliquée'', Dunod, 1999. *Dodge, Y. and Melfi, G. ''Premiers pas en simulation'',

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, Paris, 2008. *Dodge, Y., ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics'', 2008, Springer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodge, Yadolah 1944 births Living people Iranian emigrants to Switzerland Swiss statisticians Oregon State University alumni People from Abadan, Iran Academic staff of the University of Neuchâtel Mathematical statisticians Utah State University alumni