  Robert Vincent Hogg was born on November 8, 1924 in Hannibal, Missouri. He
earned a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Iowa in 1950, where his
advisor was Allen Craig. Following graduation, he joined the mathematics
faculty at the University of Iowa. He was the founding Chair when the
Department of Statistics was created at Iowa in 1965 and he served in that
capacity for 19 years. At Iowa he also served as Chair of the Quality
Management and Productivity Program and the Hanson Chair of Manufacturing
Productivity. He became Professor Emeritus in 2001 after 51 years on the Iowa
faculty. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the
American Statistical Association plus an Elected Member of the International
Statistical Institute. He was President of the American Statistical Association
(1988) and chaired two of its winter conferences (1992, 1994). He received the
ASA's Founder's Award (1991) and the Gottfried Noether Award (2001) for
contributions to nonparametric statistics. His publications through 1996 are
described in Communications in Statistics--Theory and Methods (1996),
2467--2481. This interview was conducted on April 14, 2004 at the Department of
Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and revised in the
summer of 2006.
