Donald Richards
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
326 Thomas Building
University Park, PA 16802

Donald Richards is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Penn State University.
His research interests include: multivariate statistical analysis, reliability theory,
combinatorics, probability inequalities, representation theory and harmonic analysis,
special functions of matrix argument, astronomy and astrophysics, value investing,
financial derivatives, and applications.

Teaching:

• STAT 100      Statistical Concepts and Reasoning (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003,
                               Fall 2004, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2014)
• STAT 200H   Elementary Statistics (Fall 2009)
• STAT 220      Basic Statistics (Spring 2003)
• STAT 401      Experimental Methods (Fall 2007)
• STAT 414      Introduction to Probability (Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Fall 2015,
                               Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
• STAT 415      Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2014,
                               Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
• STAT 416      Stochastic Processes (Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
• STAT 418      Probability (Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006,
                               Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2016, Spring 2018,
                               Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
• STAT 514      Theory of Statistics II (Fall 2018)
• STAT 565      Multivariate Analysis (Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2010)
• STAT 590      Topics in Research (Fall 2003)
• STAT 596      Individual Studies (Spring 2020)

Research:

• Research Students
  
  
• Recent Publications
  

• Recent Presentations
  

• MathSciNet Abstracts
  

• Listings in the arXiv

• Conference Proceedings Editorships
  

• Listings in the NASA ADS Database
  

• Listings in the CIS Database
  
  

Selected Activities:

• 2012 - 2016: Co-Editor, Statistics Surveys
• 2009 - 2015: Associate Editor, The Journal of the American Statistical Association
• 2009 - 2011: Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
• 2008 -         : Associate Editor, Statistics and Probability Letters
• 2006 - 2012: Associate Editor, Statistics Surveys
• 2006 - 2008: Associate Review Editor, The Journal of the American Statistical Association
• 2000 - 2007: Associate Editor, The Annals of Statistics