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J. R. Lockwood, Awards Chair, Statistical Computing and
Statistical Graphics Sections
A
s in previous years, the Statistical Computing and
Statistical Graphics sections sponsored their annual
student paper competition. The requirements were
that the student be the first author of a paper in the area of
statistical computing, which might be original methodological
research, novel application, or a software-related project. This
year, many excellent entries were received, from which the
selection committee selected five winners, presented here in
alphabetical order:
Bjorn Bornkamp
Does Bran Make the Man? What Statistics
(advisors Jose Pinheiro and Katja Ickstadt)
Really Tell Us
“MCPMod: An R Package for the Design and Analysis of Melinda Beck of The Wall Street Journal examines
Dose-Finding Studies” the real statistics behind the recent study that
made headlines: “You Are What Your Mother Eats,”
Wei-Chen Chen
in the Proceedings of the Royal Statistical Society B.
(advisor Karin Dorman)
“Twisted Sisters: Disentangling Selection in Overlapping Fixing the Census
Reading Frames”
Alan B. Krueger, an economics professor at
Princeton, explains in The New York Times article
Jian Guo
“Fixing the Census” why urgent attention should
(advisor Ji Zhu)
be given to the 2010 Census problems.
“Pairwise Variable Selection for High-Dimensional
Model-Based Clustering”
Researchers Identify 4 Genetic
Hotspots Associated With Psoriasis
Ruth Hummel
(advisor David Hunter)
Read online in Nature Genetics how Goncalo
“A Steplength Algorithm for Fitting ERGMs”
Abecasis, a biostatistician at the University of
Michigan, and dermatologist James T. Elder
Mihee Lee
confirmed that two previously identified DNA
(advisor J. S. Marron)
sites have a high association with psoriasis, an
“Penalized Sieve Deconvolution Estimation of Mixture
autoimmune disease that affects the joints and
Distributions with Boundary Effects”
causes itchy patches of skin in an estimated
7.5 million people in the United States.
The students will be recognized at the Statistical Computing/
Statistical Graphics business meeting during JSM 2009. They
Life Is Filled With Patterned Uncertainties
will also present their papers at a special contributed session. Sheldon Ekland-Olson writes about the
Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to the courses developed for The University of Texas
judges for their hard work in making this year’s competition
at Austin’s new academic unit, the Division
a success. ■
of Statistics and Scientific Computation.
MARCH 2009 AMSTAT NEWS 51
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