Many more people were honored during the Presidential Address and Awards
Fisher Lecturer
Ceremony for their contributions to various causes that advance the field of statistics.
Donald M. Berwick
Following is a list of awards and recipients.
spoke about
inference and
improvement in
health care.
Chair Barry William E.
Graubard accepts Strawderman,
the award of winner of the
Outstanding W. J. Youden Award
Statistical in Interlaboratory
Application on Testing (not shown
behalf of the win- is winner Andrew
Deming Lecturer Award
ners Tian Zheng, Rukhin)
The Deming Lecturer Award was estab-
Matthew Salganik,
lished in 1995 to honor the accomplish-
and Andrew
Gelman.
ments of W. Edwards Deming, recognize
the accomplishments of the awarded, and
enhance the awareness among the statistical
Outstanding Statistical W. J. Youden Award in
community of the scope and importance of
Application Award Interlaboratory Testing Deming’s contributions. The 2008 recipi-
Established in 1986, the Outstanding The W. J. Youden Award was established in
ent is Donald M. Berwick of the Institute
Statistical Application Award recognizes a 1985 to recognize publications that make
for Healthcare Improvement. Berwick
paper that is an outstanding application of outstanding contributions to the design and/
was chosen on the basis of his “extraordi-
statistics in any substantive field. The 2008 or analysis of interlaboratory tests or that
nary contributions to improving health
award winners are Tian Zheng, Columbia describe ingenious approaches to the plan-
care delivery and the human condition
University; Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton; ning and evaluation of data from such tests.
throughout the world through his vision-
and Andrew Gelman, Columbia University, This year’s award goes to Andrew L. Rukhin
ary leadership, his passion for health care
in recognition of their paper, “How Many of the University of Maryland and William
quality improvement, his appreciation of
People Do You Know in Prison? Using E. Strawderman of Rutgers University in rec-
Dr. Deming’s philosophy, and his applica-
Overdispersion in Count Data to Estimate ognition of their paper, “Statistical Aspects of
tion of statistical thinking.”
Social Structure in Networks.” Linkage Analysis in Interlaboratory Studies,”
published in the Journal of Statistical Planning
and Inference in 2007.
Madan L. Puri,
Lorraine Denby winner of the
accepts the Noether Senior
Samuel S. Wilks Scholar Award
award on behalf of
Benmei Liu, winner
Scott Zeger.
of the Edward C.
Bryant Scholarship
award
Gottfried E. Noether Awards
Samuel S. Wilks
The Noether awards were established in
Memorial Award
1999 by the wife and daughter of the late
The Wilks Memorial award was established Edward C. Bryant Scholarship
Gottfried Emanuel Noether of Connecticut
in 1964 to honor the memory and distin- Trust Fund Award
as a tribute to his memory. It recognizes
guished career of Sam Wilks by recognizing
The Bryant scholarship trust is a permanent
distinguished researchers and teachers and
outstanding contributions to statistics that
scholarship fund endowed by Westat to
supports research in nonparametric statis-
carry on the spirit of his work. The 2008
honor its cofounder and long-time leader,
tics. There are two Noether awards given:
award goes to Scott L. Zeger of Johns
Edward C. Bryant. The award honors an
The Gottfried E. Noether Young Scholar
Hopkins University, who is being honored
outstanding graduate student who is study-
Award winner for 2008 is Donglin Zeng,
for his outstanding contributions to statis-
ing survey statistics. The 2008 scholarship
Department of Biostatistics, The University
tics. The Wilks award is made possible in
recipient is Benmei Liu of the University of
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
part by a generous donation from Alexander
Maryland, College Park.
The Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar
Mood, a student of Wilks.
Award winner for 2008 is Madan L. Puri,
Department of Mathematics, Indiana
University Bloomington.
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