A tribute to Frederick (Fred) J. Kruger

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

Generating functions of Legendre polynomials: A tribute to Fred Brafman

In 1951, F. Brafman derived several “unusual” generating functions of classical orthogonal polynomials, in particular, of Legendre polynomials Pn(x). His result was a consequence of Bailey’s identity for a special case of Appell’s hypergeometric function of the fourth type. In this paper, we present a generalization of Bailey’s identity and its implication to generating functions of Legendre po...

Tribute to Professor Anthony J. McMichael

Emeritus Professor A. J. "Tony" McMichael (1942-2014) was an internationally renowned and pioneering Australian academic and advocate in epidemiology, who was passionate about understanding the influences of the environment on human health. In an illustrious career spanning more than four decades, he made significant contributions to the scientific community and policy discourse-including groun...

Tribute to Patrick J. Mulrow, MD.

The friends and colleagues of Patrick Joseph Mulrow, MD, were saddened to learn of his death on December 3, 2015, just 13 days short of his 89th birthday. Pat is well known to the hypertension research community both for his research on the regulation of aldosterone and his skill as a clinician, but especially for his exemplary gift for leadership. Dr Mulrow did his undergraduate degree (AB, cu...

Statistics and Applied Probability: A Tribute to Jeffrey J. Hunter

We are delighted to be associated as guest editors with the publication of this special issue of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, in honour of our esteemed colleague Professor Jeffrey J. Hunter. This special issue marks Jeff 's retirement from Massey University, although Jeff plans to continue his research. It also acknowledges Jeff 's many contributions to probability ...