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Conference Given in
Honor of T. W. Anderson
Peter Reinhard Hansen, tze Leung Lai, and Raja Velu
T
ed Anderson, a past
vice president of the
ASA, turned 90 in
June of 2008. To celebrate
the occasion, the statistics
and economics departments
at Stanford University orga-
nized a conference from June
6–7, 2008.
Anderson’s contributions
to statistics and economics
are well-known. The Collected
Papers of T. W. Anderson cov-
ers a span of his work up to
1985. He has published more
ted Anderson comments on a presentation.
than 70 papers since then.
Invited speakers, in pre-
senting their research, point-
ed out Anderson’s funda-
mental contributions and the
over-arching influence of his
early work. Kenneth Arrow,
1972 Nobel laureate in eco-
nomics, gave an overview of
the early developments in
econometrics during his talk,
“Some Reminiscences of
Econometrics in the 1940s,”
and profiled Anderson’s con-
tributions to econometrics
while he was a member of the
ted Anderson and his wife, Dorothy, listen to a speaker during the
conference banquet.
Cowles Commission.
The list of conference
speakers included many of his
former students, coauthors,
guests—including Anderson’s scanned version was unveiled
and colleagues. Anderson was
wife, Dorothy, and their to Anderson on the second
always in attendance, adding
children—attended. Several day of the conference. During
details about historical facts
people expressed their person- the concluding session that
to many of the presenta-
al gratitude to the Andersons day, a special issue (Vol.
tions. His comments were
for their mentoring 138, No. 9) of the Journal
crisp and right to the point,
and hospitality. of Statistical Planning and
as seen in his interviews with
Anderson’s 1945 doctoral Inference, edited in Anderson’s
Morris DeGroot for Statistical
dissertation was scanned for honor, was presented to him
Science and Peter Phillips for
the occasion and made avail- by J. N. Srivastava, editor-in-
Econometric Theory, both
able as a PDF file from http:// chief of the journal.
published in 1986.
stat.stanford.edu/twa. Its effect More information about
The banquet held on the
on econometrics and mul- the conference can be found at
first day of the conference
tivariate analysis was noted http://stat.stanford.edu/twa. n
was a success. More than 100
by several speakers, and the
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