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Kevin J. Coakley (Fed)

Kevin J. Coakley earned a B.S. in Physics from Yale University, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Washington (Seattle), and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. He joined the Statistical Engineering Division at NIST in 1989. Current research interests include aerosol physics; neutron physics; fast neutron spectroscopy; neutron imaging; astroparticle physics; and computational biology.

Technical Areas of Research and Consulting:

  • Planning and analysis of experiments in physical science and engineering
  • Stochastic and empirical model building
  • Computer intensive statistical methods
  • Bootstrap resampling methods
  • Statistical signal processing
  • Statistical algorithms for imaging

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Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022