Government Statistics
John Czajka Receives
Physical and
Engineering Sciences
Patricia J. Doyle Award
‘08 SRC Covers
Robert Lussier and Wendy Alvey, Government Statistics Section
Lot of Ground
Paul Kvam, Georgia Institute
T
he Patricia J. Doyle Award was
of Technology
established to recognize excep-
tional service to the Government
Statistics Section. A panel made up of
Carol House, current GSS chair;
Stephen Cohen, past GSS chair; and
T
he 2008 Spring Research
Conference (SRC) on Statistics
in Industry and Technology
Robert Lussier, incoming GSS chair,
took place at Georgia Institute of
selected this year’s recipient. The award,
Technology in Atlanta May 19–21.
the fourth to be given, goes to John L.
This year’s conference included 110
Czajka from Mathematica Policy
participants and featured plenary
Research Inc. in Washington, DC.
speakers Peter Bickel of the University
Czajka has a long history of serv-
of California, Berkeley; James Glimm,
ing the GSS and has been an active
National Medal of Science recipient
Washington, DC, Chapter member.
from SUNY, Stony Brook; and Zhong
As secretary/treasurer of the Social
Lin Wang, director of the Center for
Statistics Section (SSS) in 1994–1995,
Nanostructure Characterization at
Czajka was instrumental in bringing
Georgia Tech.
the SSS and GSS together to produce
The campus hosts were
a joint newsletter. The sections’ first
accommodating and the talks
joint newsletter appeared in the win-
especially stimulating. Along with 10
ter of 1995, an effort that helped the
John Czajka of Mathematica Policy Research Inc. and
contributed sessions, the conference
Social Statistics Section communicate
Carol C. House (GSS chair) of the Agricultural Statistics
had 13 invited sessions on topics
more effectively with its members while
Board National Agricultural Statistics Service
such as DOE computer experiments,
assisting the Government Statistics
statistics in nanomanufacturing, health
Section with the costs of producing a biannual newsletter. As publications officer for SSS,
process monitoring, recent European
he also played a role in the development of a joint proceedings volume for the two sections,
advances in design of industrial
which also had mutual benefits.
experiments, modeling credit risk
In 2000, Czajka served as program chair for GSS at the Joint Statistical Meetings in
portfolios in retail banking, multiscale
Indianapolis. That was followed by his election as chair of the section in 2002. GSS then
modeling, machine learning, reliability
served as the ASA’s representative to the Council of Professional Associations on Federal
in industrial experiments, and analysis
Statistics from 2004–2005.
of supersaturated design.
During his tenure, Czajka was a careful and conscientious caretaker of the GSS’ lim-
The SRC program committee
ited treasury. He also was instrumental in the development and support of the GSS
helped provide free travel and
Corporate Sponsor program, the development and support of the Wray Jackson Smith
registration for 14 top students who
Scholarship, the organization of a memorial session in 2001, and the establishment of
submitted a contributed talk for
the Pat Doyle Award.
the meetings. William Brenneman
Czajka was a long-time researcher at Mathematica Policy Research Inc., and his pro-
and Winson Taam organized the
fessional contributions include numerous papers and sessions on administrative records,
contributed sessions, which were
analysis of income and wealth, and effectiveness of programs involving the tax and transfer
well attended.
system—especially via data collected by the Survey of Income and Program Participation—
The 15th SRC will be held May
and his more recent work in the area of children’s health insurance coverage.
27–29, 2009, in Vancouver, British
Elected an ASA Fellow in 2003, Czajka’s commitment to the use of statistics to help
Columbia, Canada.
managers make policy decisions and his work for the section honor Doyle’s similar role
If you would like to participate in
in her shortened lifetime. With the presentation of this Patricia J. Doyle Award, we thank
planning next year’s meeting or if you
Czajka for his many contributions and encourage him to keep up the good work in the
have questions about it, contact Boxin
years ahead. We do not know what we would do without his wise counsel.
Tang at boxint@stat.sfu.ca.
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