President of the American Statistical Association
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The President of the American Statistical Association is the head of the American Statistical Association
(ASA). According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer
, and a member of the board of directors
and of the executive committee
. Elections for the position are held annually, in which all full members are eligible to vote. The term in office is typically three years, as President-Elect
and Past President are also official positions.
American Statistical Association
The American Statistical Association , is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States...
(ASA). According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer
Corporate title
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, and a member of the board of directors
Board of directors
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and of the executive committee
Executive Committee
Executive Committee may refer to:* The Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, a government body in the United Kingdom 1921–1972* The Northern Ireland Executive, a government body in the United Kingdom...
. Elections for the position are held annually, in which all full members are eligible to vote. The term in office is typically three years, as President-Elect
President-elect
An -elect is a political candidate who has been elected to an office but who has not yet been sworn in or officially taken office. These may include an incoming president, senator, representative, governor and mayor.Analogously, the term "designate" An -elect is a political candidate who has been...
and Past President are also official positions.
19th Century
- 1839 - 1845 Richard Fletcher
- 1846 - 1851 George C. Shattuck
- 1852 - 1882 Edward Jarvis
- 1883 - 1896 Francis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and military officer in the Union Army. Walker was born into a prominent Boston family, the son of the economist and politician Amasa Walker, and he graduated from Amherst College at the age...
- 1897 - 1909 Carroll D. WrightCarroll D. WrightCarroll Davidson Wright was an American statistician.Wright was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He began to study law in 1860, but in 1862 enlisted as a private in the 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment to fight the American Civil War...
20th Century
- 1910 S. N. D. North
- 1911 Frederick L. Hoffman
- 1912 Walter Francis WillcoxWalter Francis WillcoxWalter Francis Willcox, Ph.D., LL.D. was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880; Amherst College in 1884 with an A.B. and in 1888 received and A.M. degree from...
- 1914 John Koren
- 1915 E. Dana Durand
- 1916 Charles P. NeillCharles P. NeillCharles Patrick Neill was an American civil servant who raised in Austin, Texas after his family emigrated from Ireland in 1850. Neill graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1897 with a doctorate in economics and politics. He was appointed the United States Commissioner of Labor in 1906 by...
- 1917 Allyn Abbott YoungAllyn Abbott YoungAllyn Abbott Young was a celebrated American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio on September 19, 1876 and died aged 52 in London on March 7, 1929, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and...
- 1918 Wesley Clair MitchellWesley Clair MitchellWesley Clair Mitchell was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades....
- 1919 Joseph Adna HillJoseph Adna HillJoseph Adna Hill was an American statistician, born at Stewartstown, New Hampshire; he graduated from Harvard University in 1885 and from the University of Halle in 1892...
- 1920 George E. RobertsGeorge E. RobertsGeorge Evan Roberts was Director of the United States Mint from 1898 to 1907, and again from 1910 to 1914.-Biography:...
- 1921 Carroll W. Doten
- 1922 William S. Rossiter
- 1923 Warren M. Persons
- 1924 Louis Israel DublinLouis Israel DublinLouis Israel Dublin was a Jewish American statistician. As vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Dublin promoted progressive and socially useful insurance underwriting policies...
- 1925 Robert E. Chaddock
- 1926 Leonard Porter AyresLeonard Porter AyresLeonard Porter Ayres was an American educator, soldier, and statistician.-Biography:Ayres was born at Niantic, Conn. He received his college and graduate training at Boston, Harvard, and Columbia universities....
- 1927 Edmund E. Day
- 1928 Carl SnyderCarl SnyderCarl Snyder was an American economist and statistician.Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, later writing editorials for the Washington Post...
- 1929 Edwin B. Wilson
- 1930 Malcolm B. Rorty
- 1931 William Fielding OgburnWilliam Fielding OgburnWilliam Fielding Ogburn was an American sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogburn received his B.A. degree from Mercer University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
- 1932 Irving FisherIrving FisherIrving Fisher was an American economist, inventor, and health campaigner, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation often regarded as belonging instead to the Post-Keynesian school.Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and...
- 1933 Stuart A. Rice
- 1934 Frederick C. Mills
- 1935 Willford I. KingWillford I. KingWillford Isbell King was a noted American statistician, economist, and chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc....
- 1936 Joseph S. Davis
- 1937 Warren Randolph BurgessWarren Randolph BurgessWarren Randolph Burgess was an American banker and diplomat who served as ambassador to NATO from 1957 to 1961....
- 1938 Robert H. CoatsRobert H. CoatsRobert Hamilton Coats was Canada's first Dominion Statistician.He was born in Clinton, Huron County, Ontario in 1874, the son of Charles Coats, who came to Canada from Scotland. In 1896, Coats received a B.A. from the University College in Toronto...
- 1939 Raymond PearlRaymond PearlRaymond Pearl was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore....
- 1940 F. Leslie Hayford
- 1941 Winfield W. Riefler
- 1942 Alfred J. LotkaAlfred J. LotkaAlfred James Lotka was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist best known for his proposal of the predator-prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra...
- 1943 Emanuel A. Goldenweiser
- 1944 Helen M. Walker
- 1945 Walter A. ShewhartWalter A. ShewhartWalter Andrew Shewhart March 18, 1891 - March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control.W...
- 1946 Isador Lubin
- 1947 Willard ThorpWillard ThorpWillard L. Thorp was an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs...
- 1948 George W. SnedecorGeorge W. SnedecorGeorge Waddel Snedecor was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of analysis of variance, data analysis, experimental design, and statistical methodology. Snedecor's F distribution and the George W...
- 1949 Simon KuznetsSimon KuznetsSimon Smith Kuznets was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and...
- 1950 Samuel S. WilksSamuel S. WilksSamuel Stanley Wilks was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications....
- 1951 Lowell J. Reed
- 1952 Aryness Joy Wickens
- 1953 William Gemmell CochranWilliam Gemmell CochranWilliam Gemmell Cochran was a prominent statistician; he was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States....
- 1954 Herbert Marshall
- 1955 Ralph J. Watkins
- 1956 Gertrude Mary CoxGertrude Mary CoxGertrude Mary Cox was an influential American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research...
- 1957 William R. Leonard
- 1958 Walter E. Hoadley
- 1959 Rensis LikertRensis LikertRensis Likert was an American educator and organizational psychologist best known for his research on management styles...
- 1960 Morris H. HansenMorris H. HansenMorris Howard Hansen was an American statistician. While at the United States Census Bureau, he was one of the first to develop methods for statistical sampling and made contributions in many areas of surveys and censuses.-Early life:...
- 1961 Martin R. Gainsbrugh
- 1962 Philip M. Hauser
- 1963 Raymond T. Bowman
- 1964 Albert H. Bowker
- 1965 W. Allen Wallis
- 1966 Frederick F. Stephan
- 1967 Frederick Mosteller
- 1968 Geoffrey H. Moore
- 1969 A. Ross EcklerA. Ross EcklerAlbert Ross Eckler served as Deputy Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1949 to 1965, and its Director from 1965 until 1969. He was the first career employee ever to become director of the agency....
- 1970 T. A. Bancroft
- 1971 Churchill EisenhartChurchill EisenhartDr. Churchill Eisenhart was a United States mathematician. He was Chief of the Statistical Engineering Laboratory , Applied Mathematics Division of the National Bureau of Standards ....
- 1972 William H. Shaw
- 1973 Clifford G. Hildreth
- 1974 Jerome CornfieldJerome CornfieldJerome Cornfield was a US statistician. He is best known for his work in biostatistics, but his early work was in economic statistics and he also contributed to the theory of Bayesian inference. He also played a role in the early development of input-output analysis and linear programming.He was...
- 1975 Lester FrankelLester FrankelLester Robert Frankel was a prominent American survey statistician. He studied under Harold Hotelling, receiving a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936, and served as the 70th president of the American Statistical Association in 1975...
- 1976 Franklin A. Graybill
- 1977 Leslie KishLeslie KishLeslie Kish was an American statistician and survey methodologist of Hungarian descent. He fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War....
- 1978 George E. P. BoxGeorge E. P. Box- External links :* from a at NIST* * * * * *** For Box's PhD students see*...
- 1979 Herman Otto HartleyHerman Otto HartleyH. O. Hartley , born Herman Otto Hirschfeld but commonly called HOH, was a German-American statistician. He developed Hartley's test for equality of variances . In 1967 he and J.N.K. Rao published a maximum likelihood method for finding variance components in mixed models...
- 1980 Margaret E. Martin
- 1981 Ralph A. Bradley
- 1982 William KruskalWilliam KruskalWilliam Henry Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance , a widely-used nonparametric statistical method.Kruskal was born in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler...
- 1983 Richard L. Anderson
- 1984 I. Richard Savage
- 1985 John NeterJohn NeterJohn Neter is a German-born American statistician, university professor, and widely-published author.Growing up in Germany, he was a classmate of Henry Kissinger.He spent much of his career teaching statistics at University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia....
- 1986 Donald MarquardtDonald MarquardtDonald W. Marquardt was an American statistician, the rediscoverer of the Levenberg–Marquardt nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm....
- 1987 Barbara A. Bailar
- 1988 Robert V. HoggRobert V. HoggRobert Vincent Hogg is an American statistician and professor of statistics of the University of Iowa. Hogg is known for his widely used textbooks on statistics and on mathematical statistics...
- 1989 Janet L. Norwood
- 1990 Vincent P. Barabba
- 1991 Arnold ZellnerArnold ZellnerArnold Zellner was an American economist and statistician specializing in the fields of Bayesian probability and econometrics...
- 1992 Katherine K. Wallman
- 1993 J. Stuart Hunter
- 1994 Ronald L. ImanRonald L. ImanDr. Ronald L. Iman is an American statistician, currently president of Southwest Technology Consultants in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was previously president of the American Statistical Association. He was one of the developers of the statistical technique known as Latin hypercube...
- 1995 Mitchell H. Gail
- 1996 Lynne Billard
- 1997 Jon R. Kettenring
- 1998 David S. Moore
- 1999 Jonas H. Ellenberg
21st Century
- 2000 W. Michael O'Fallon
- 2001 Richard L. Scheaffer
- 2002 Miron L. Straf
- 2003 Robert L. Mason
- 2004 Bradley EfronBradley EfronBradley Efron is an American statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application...
- 2005 Fritz J. Scheuren
- 2006 Sallie Keller-McNulty
- 2007 Mary Ellen Bock
- 2008 Peter A. Lachenbruch
- 2009 Sally C. Morton
- 2010 Sastry G. Pantula
- 2011 Nancy L. Geller
- 2012 Robert N. Rodriguez
- 2013 Marie Davidian
See also
- President of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsPresident of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsThe President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics , and, together with the President-Elect and Past President, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.-Duties:...
- President of the Royal Statistical SocietyPresident of the Royal Statistical SocietyThe President of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society , elected biannually by the Fellows of the Society. ....
- President of the Statistical Society of CanadaPresident of the Statistical Society of CanadaThe President of the Statistical Society of Canada is the highest officer of the Statistical Society of Canada .-20th Century:*1972-1974 N. Shklov*1974-1975 Pierre Robillard*1975-1976 C. S. Carter*1976-1978 David F. Bray*1979 Donald G. Watts...