Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (active 1975–2013)

PhD 1975, University of New Mexico

Honors and Awards

2013 Youden Lecturer, American Society for Quality

2002 Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association

1988 Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award

1981 Frank Wilcoxon Prize for best applications paper in Technometrics

Selected professional service

2012–2015 Leadership Support Council, ASA: Vice-Chair for professional issues and visibility

2011–2104 Associate Editor, The American Statistician

2008–2011 Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Software

2008 Program Committee Chair, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver

2003 Program Chair, Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, Dayton

2002 Program Chair, ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences

2002–2004 Review Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association

1998–2004 Associate Editor, Technometrics

1996–2001 Associate Editor, JASA book reviews

Selected publications

Lenth, Russell V. (2015), “The Case Against Normal Plots of Effects,” Journal of Quality Technology (with discussion), 47, 91–97.

Lenth, Russell V. (2016), “Least-squares Means: The R Package lsmeans,” Journal of Statistical Software, 69(1).

Lenth, Russell V. (2007), “Post Hoc Power: Tables and Commentary,” Technical report 378, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa.

Lenth, Russell V. (2001), “Some Practical Guidelines for Effective Sample-Size Determination,” The American Statistician, 55, 187–193.

Anderson-Sprecher, Richard C. and Lenth, Russell V. (1996), “Spline estimation using directions-only tracking data,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91, 276–283.

Lenth, Russell V. (1989), “Alg AS 243—Cumulative distribution function of the noncentral t distribution,” Applied Statistics, 38, 185–189.

Lenth, Russell V. (1989), “Quick-and-easy analysis of unreplicated factorials,” Technometrics, 31, 469–473.

Lenth, Russell V. (1986), “On identification using probability,” Journal of the Forensic Science Society (London), 26, 197–213.

Hogg, Robert V. and Lenth, Russell V. (1984), “A review of some adaptive statistical techniques,” Communications in Statistics, A13, 1551–1579.

Lenth, Russell V. (1983), “Some properties of U statistics,” The American Statistician, 37, 311–313.

Lenth, Russell V. (1981), “On finding the source of a signal,” Technometrics, 23, 149–154.

Lenth, Russell V. (1981), “Robust measures of location for directional data,” Technometrics, 23, 77–81.

Selected software

2016 emmeans: Estimated marginal means, R package.

2009 rsm: Response-Surface Analysis, R package.

2000 Piface: Java Applets for Power and Sample Size, available at https://github.com/rvlenth/piface.