12 at Simmons College
in Boston, Massachusetts.
AeRA Inducts Fellows
Hosmer is being recognized
A number of ASA members were recently selected for the inaugural
for his many contribu-
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellows Program.
tions, including excellence
They are being recognized for either their exceptional scientific or
in teaching, guidance, and
scholarly contributions to education research or their significant con-
mentorship of students;
tributions to the field through development of research opportunities
extensive and significant
and settings that are nationally and internationally recognized. The
applied and methodological
fellows will be inducted at the AERA annual meeting in San Diego,
research; and service to the California, in April of 2009.
Boston Chapter, the ASA,
The new AERA Fellows who are also ASA members include the following:
and the profession.
Peter M. Bentler, University of California, Los Angeles
James R. Chromy, RTI International
Michael P. Cohen, Statistical Consultant
Emerson J. Elliott, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
Larry V. Hedges, Northwestern University
Paul W. Holland, Paul Holland Consulting Corporation
Ingram Olkin, Stanford University
Stephen W. Raudenbush, University of Chicago
Marilyn M. Seastrom, National Center for Education Statistics
Juliet Popper Shaffer, University of California-Berkeley
Mosteller
Judith D. Singer, Harvard University
Patrick Suppes, Stanford University
David M. Thissen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hosmer is professor
emeritus at the University
Howard Wainer, National Board of Medical Examiners
of Massachusetts/Amherst,
Andrew A. White, National Center for Education Statistics
where he served on the fac- For information about AERA, visit
www.aera.net.
ulty from 1973–2002 and
was instrumental in develop-
ing the biostatistics program.
He served on more than 100
thesis committees and super-
STATISTICIANS IN THE NEWS
vised eight doctoral disserta-
Read about your colleagues and friends in the news. Go to
tions. Hosmer is the author
of two popular and best-
www.amstat.org and click on “Statisticians in the News.”
selling textbooks, Applied
Logistic Regression and
Man behind the Creative Class Stats Shares Ideas on Detroit
Applied Survival Analysis. He
Kevin stolarick, the “Official statistician of the Creative Class,” talks to Terry Parris
also developed the Hosmer-
Jr. of Model D about what makes a city cool.
Lemeshow goodness-of-fit
test to assess the fit of the
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician
logistic regression model.
Julie Rehmeyer of Science News shares some highlights from the life of one
of the world’s most popular applied statisticians: Florence Nightingale.
Hosmer continues to teach
applied logistic regression
and applied survival analy-
Political Polling Expert Nate Silver Signs Two book Deals
sis in the Department of
According to the online magazine Huffington Post, statistician Nate
silver, the author of the web site
FiveThirtyEight.com, has two book
Mathematics and Statistics
proposals in the works: one about the art of prediction and the other
at the University of Vermont
a Freakonomics-style guide to the mechanics of electoral politics.
and as short courses during
professional meetings.
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