Murray Aitkin is an Australian statistician who specialises in statistical models.
He attained his BSc, PhD, and DSc in Sydney University for mathematical statistics in 1961, 1966 and 1997, respectively.
[1] Between 2000 and 2002, he went on leave from Newcastle to take on the role of chief statistician at the Education Statistics Services Institute in Washington D.C.[1] Between 1971 and 1972, he was a senior fellow for Fulbright, an American exchange scholarship program.
Between 1976 and 1979, he was a professorial fellow at the Social Science Research Council, in Lancaster University.
[2] In 1981, he co-authored with Darrel Bock and published a paper titled: "Marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item parameters: Application of an EM algorithm" to Psychometrika in which he discussed GLMMs.