Michael Woodroofe

Michael Woodroofe
Woodroofe lecturing in 2002
Born	Michael Barrett Woodroofe (1940-03-17)March 17, 1940 Corvalis, Oregon, U.S.
Died	February 22, 2022(2022-02-22) (aged 81)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University (BS) University of Oregon (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics, Mathematics
Institutions	University of Michigan
Thesis	Statistical Properties of the Number of Positive Sums  (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Theodore Matthes
Doctoral students	Martha Aliaga Nancy E. Heckman Dong-Yun Kim Mary C. Meyer Bodhisattva Sen Wei Biao Wu
Website	dept.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~michaelw/

Michael Barrett Woodroofe (March 17, 1940 – February 22, 2022) was an American probabilist and statistician. He was a professor of statistics and of mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he was the Leonard J. Savage Professor until his retirement. He was noted for his work in sequential analysis and nonlinear renewal theory, in central limit theory, and in nonparametric inference with shape constraints.