The ASA Fellow Award—Revisited
Robert Starbuck
T
he 2008 ASA Fellow awards were presented during JSM in 2008 from the Business/Industry sector had a greater chance of success
Denver. Here, I present a brief update to previous articles than nominations from the other two sectors.
appearing in Amstat News about this subject. The number of Fellow nominations from a given employment sec-
The counts of ASA Fellow awards given by employment sector tor is a key factor in determining the number of awards from that
since 2004 are presented in Table 1 and Figure 1. sector. The other obvious key factor is the quality of the nominations.
The percentages of Fellows awarded by employment sector rela- To increase the number of Fellow awards in Business/Industry to
tive to the percentages of ASA membership by sector are shown in achieve parity in the percentages of awards relative to the percentages
Figure 2. of ASA membership (see Figure 2), the number of nominations from
The counts and percentages of Fellow nominations by employ- Business/Industry needs to increase, and these nominations need to
ment sector are shown in Table 2. The number of Fellow nominations be of good quality.
in 2008 was considerably fewer than in 2007 in each sector, which The ASA Fellow award is a significant recognition of contributions
may explain why the total number of awards in 2008 was also fewer to the statistics profession, and one that should reflect the constitu-
than in 2007. ency of the membership of the ASA. If you or others you know are
So, how have the nominations fared in each of the employment deserving of this award, please participate in and encourage others to
sectors? As shown in Table 3 and Figure 3, nominations submitted in participate in the award nomination process. n
Table 1—Counts and Percentages of ASA Fellow Awards
Employment Sector
Year
Academe
Business/
Industry
Government Total
2004 37 (66.1) 10 (17.9) 9 (16.1) 56
2005 38 (67.9) 8 (14.3) 10 (17.9) 56
2006 50 (83.3) 5 ( 8.3) 5 ( 8.3) 60
2007 37 (62.7) 11 (18.6) 11 (18.6) 59
2008 32 (60.4) 13 (24.5) 8 (15.1) 53
Figure 1. % of ASA Fellows awarded
Table 2—Counts and Percentages of ASA Fellow Nominations
Employment Sector
Year
Academe Business/ Government Total
Industry
2004 44 (59.5) 16 (21.6) 14 (18.9) 74
2005 51 (57.3) 22 (24.7) 16 (18.0) 89
2006 80 (72.7) 19 (17.3) 11 (10.0) 110
2007 79 (65.8) 22 (18.3) 19 (15.8) 120
2008 60 (64.5) 18 (19.4) 15 (16.1) 93
Figure 2. % of ASA Fellows awarded / % of ASA membership
Table 3—Percentages of Successful ASA Fellow Nominations
Employment Sector
Year
Academe Business/Industry Government
2004 84.1 62.5 64.3
2005 74.5 36.4 62.5
2006 62.5 26.3 45.5
2007 46.8 50.0 57.9
2008 53.3 72.2 53.3
Figure 3. % of successful ASA Fellows nominations
OCTOBER 2008 AMSTAT NEWS 9
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