Other Professional Service

    Refereed papers for Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, Letters in Prob. \& Stat., Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Calcolo, Mathematics of Computation, Journal Approximation Theory, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Ann. Inst. Statistical Math., Comm. in Statistics, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Reviewed grant proposals for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, the Army Basic Research Committee, and the National Security Agency.

    Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics, 1986 -- 1991.

    Organized an invited paper session entitled ``Issues in Statistical Supercomputing,'' at the 19th Symposium on the Interface of Computer Science and Statistics, March 9, 1987, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Organized an invited paper session at the 204th meeting of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics, entitled ``Stochastic Processes and Nonparametric Statistical Inference,'' Madison, Wisconsin, May 18, 1988.

    Organized an invited paper session for the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association National Meeting entitled ``Implementation of Smoothing Techniques,'' Washington, D.C., August 10, 1989.

    Member, Advisory Panel for National Science Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Washington, D.C., March 23-24, 1992.

    Site Manager and Project Coordinator for Rice STATS Workshop, (Statistical Thinking and Teaching Statistics), for the Mathematical Association of America, Houston, Texas, June 12-19, 1994.

    Organized an invited paper session for the SIAM National Meeting entitled ``Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments,'' San Diego, California, July 28, 1994.

    Review of ``Validation strategy for the integrated exposure uptake biokinetic model for lead in children,'' intra--agency proposal for the Environmental Protection Agency.

    External Expert Peer Reviewer, EPA/USLADP (Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project) Integrated Report Review Workshop, September 20-22, 1995, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.