The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies
Statisticians Honored for Contributions
Madhuri Mulekar, university of south Alabama and secretary/Treasurer of COPss
of multidisciplinary scientific
teams; and for his outstanding
contributions to statistics as an
editorial board member and
mentor of students and post-
doctoral fellows.” Also a recipi-
ent of the 2001 Noether Award,
2004 Outstanding Statistical
Application Award, and 2007
Youden Award, Irizarry has
contributed to the field of genom-
ics through numerous publica-
Irizarry Davidian
tions and the open-source soft-
ware Bioconductor.
The 2009 George W. Snedecor
Award was presented to Marie
Davidian of North Carolina
State University. This award
honors an individual who was
instrumental in the development
of statistical theory in biometry
with a noteworthy publication
in biometry within three years of
the date of the award. The award
citation recognized Davidian
“for fundamental contributions
to the theory and methodology
of longitudinal data, especially
Reid Cressie
nonlinear mixed effects models;
for significant contributions to
the analysis of clinical trials and
observational studies; and for
T
he Committee of contributions to the statistics
leadership as president of ENAR,
Presidents of Statistical profession. The award citation
as editor, and as a member of the
Societies (COPSS) pres- recognized Irizarry for “his wide-
International Biometric Society
ents awards annually to honor ranging and highly influential
(IBS) council.” The award rec-
statisticians for their outstanding contributions to the theory and
ognized the publication jointly
contributions and service to fur- methodology of statistical sci-
written with M. Zhang and A.
ther the statistics field. Four ence that underpins the analysis
A. Tsiatis, “Improving Efficiency
awards were presented during the of time series and genomic data;
of Inferences in Randomized
Joint Statistical Meetings on for demonstrating the essential
Clinical Trials Using Auxiliary
August 5. role of statistics to the advance-
Covariates,” Biometrics, 64, 707–
The 2009 Presidents’ Award ment of modern genomic science
715. Davidian has authored two
was presented to Rafael Irizarry and biotechnology; for advancing
books and 80 publications and
of The Johns Hopkins University. statistical practice through publi-
is a recipient of the Janet
This award is presented to a cation of open-source software
Norwood Award.
young member of one of the and participation in the core
The 2009 Florence Nightingale
participating societies of COPSS development group of
David Award was present-
in recognition of outstanding Bioconductor; for his leadership
ed to Nancy Reid, university
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