Alan Gilbert Agresti (born February 6, 1947) is an American statistician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida.
The Agresti–Coull confidence interval for a binomial proportion is named after him and his doctoral student Brent Coull.
[5] He wrote the textbook Categorical Data Analysis during a sabbatical year at Imperial College.
He was named "Statistician of the Year" by the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association in 2003.
The workshop "Categorical Data Analysis & Friends" was held in his honor in Florence, Italy in 2019.