Journal Honors Efron
Papers requested for special issue
Chapter of the ASA, Fisher Prize papers will be fully refereed before
from the Committee of Presidents publication and must be submit-
of Statistical Societies, C. R. and ted no later than October 31,
Bhargarvi Rao Prize from Penn 2009; the special volume will be
State, and Wilks Medal and published in January 2010. The
Noether Award from the ASA. In length of the papers may not
2007, Efron was given one of sci- exceed 25 pages, and accepted
ences most prestigious awards, the papers must be typed in LaTeX.
National Medal of Science, for his The LaTeX template and style file
contributions to theoretical and are available at
www.isrt.ac.bd/jsr.
applied statistics, especially the Final versions of accepted papers
bootstrap sampling technique. must be submitted by December
Efron is the founding editor 31, 2009. All authors are encour-
of the Annals of Applied Statistics aged to send their manuscripts to
and has been involved with the B. M. Golam Kibria (kibriag@fiu.
editorial boards of several lead- edu), Overseas Managing Editor,
ing international statistics jour- Department of Statistics, Florida
nals. He is the author of several International University, Miami,
Efron
books and more than 150 papers FL 33199, with a copy to the
in some of the world’s most pres- following editors:
T
he Institute of Statistical
tigious journals, including the
Research and Training at
A. K. Md. E. Saleh, Department
Journal of the American Statistical
the University of Dhaka in
of Mathematics and Statistics,
Association, Biometrika, Biometrics,
Bangladesh will publish a special
Carleton University, Ottawa,
Technometrics, Annals of Statistics,
volume of the Journal of Statistical
Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada;
and the Journal of the Royal
Research (JSR) in honor of Bradley
esaleh@math.carleton.ca.
Statistical Society.
Efron of Stanford University for
Efron’s colleagues, friends,
M. S. Hayat Khan, Institute of
his outstanding contribution to
well-wishers, and former students
Statistical Research and Training,
the statistical, mathematical, and
are invited to contribute papers
University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000,
physical sciences.
(both applied and theoretical) to
Bangladesh; sekanderhayat@
Efron began his career in
this special issue of JSR. These
gmail.com. ■
1964 as an assistant professor
in the department of statistics
at Stanford University and has
held several positions there since,
Volume on First 100 ASA
including chair of statistics, asso-
ciate dean of science, chair of the
university advisory board, and Presidents Nearly Ready
chair of the faculty senate. He
works on both theoretical and
Fritz Scheuren
applied topics, but is best known
for developing the bootstrap
method, one of the world’s most
cited statistical techniques. I
n the April 2009 issue of Amstat News, members wer e asked to
volunteer their time to the electronic volume of the first 100 ASA
presidents. Past ASA President Fritz Scheuren has been leading
A Fellow of the ASA, Efron this project, with the help of ASA members Wendy Alvey and Beth
has received numerous awards for Kilss. They ran into a road block when they were unable to find pic-
his extraordinary contributions to tures of a handful of the presidents.
statistics over the years. Some of Recently, ASA member Jana Asher stepped “into the breach” and
these include the Ford Prize from found the last dozen pictures. This was an achievement—both foren-
the Mathematical Association of sically and scientifically.
America, Outstanding Statistician The online volume should be available for viewing by this year’s
of the Year from the Chicago JSM, in early August. ■
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