Richard Lockhart

My Photo Professor and Chair
Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6

E-mail: lockhart at sfu dot ca
Sentenced to Chair: 1 May 2008 to 31 August 2014
Phone: (778) 782-3264
FAX: (778) 782-4368
Office: TLX 10549
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Basically, I am not interested in research. I am interested in understanding, which is different: David Blackwell

Wittgenstein on our mission

Personal Philosophy

Chair's thought with apologies to George Box:
All budgets are wrong. Are any budgets useful?

"To the Members of the University Community: In order to restore what Milton called the ruin of our grand parents, I wish to announce that henceforth, as a matter of University policy, evil is abolished and paradise is restored. I trust all of us will do whatever possible to achieve this policy objective.": Bart Giamatti, President of Yale, 1978.

"Every statistician on this planet would answer the question the same way."
Munir Sheik, testifying before the House of Commons Industry Committee, 27 July 2010.


ResearchTeachingSSC Fun
Goodness-of-fit STAT 101: 12-1
Introduction to Statistics
The Statistical Society
of Canada
Lotto 6-49 data
Bienayme-Galton-
Watson processes
STAT 890: 11-3
Statistical Theory I
Canadian Journal
of Statistics
Putnam Solutions (mine)
1985 1988 2004 2005 2010
Applied papers All courses I have
taught using the web
Liaison Personal History Talk

My Children

Julia Lockhart Sandy Lockhart Mackenzie and Angus Lockhart

My cv


Prices of current statistics journals
Toddler Property Laws

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