Wilks Memorial Award
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The Wilks Memorial Award is awarded by the American Statistical Association
to recognize outstanding contributions to statistics. It was established in 1964 and is awarded yearly. It is named in memory of the statistician Samuel S. Wilks
. The award consists of a medal, a citation and a cash honorarium of US$1500 (as of 2008).
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...
to recognize outstanding contributions to statistics. It was established in 1964 and is awarded yearly. It is named in memory of the statistician Samuel S. Wilks
Samuel S. Wilks
Samuel 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....
. The award consists of a medal, a citation and a cash honorarium of US$1500 (as of 2008).
Winners of the Wilks Memorial Award
- 1964 Frank E. Grubbs
- 1965 John W. Tukey
- 1966 Leslie E. Simon
- 1967 William G. Cochran
- 1968 Jerzy NeymanJerzy NeymanJerzy Neyman , born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life and career:...
- 1969 W. J. Youden
- 1970 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...
- 1971 Harold F. DodgeHarold F. DodgeHarold French Dodge was one of the principal architects of the science of statistical quality control...
- 1972 George E.P. Box
- 1973 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...
- 1974 Cuthbert Daniel
- 1975 Herbert Solomon
- 1976 Solomon KullbackSolomon KullbackSolomon Kullback was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. He went on to a long and distinguished career at SIS and...
- 1977 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 ....
- 1978 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...
- 1979 Alexander M. Mood
- 1980 W. Allen Wallis
- 1981 Holbrook WorkingHolbrook WorkingHolbrook Working , a professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University’s FoodResearch Institute, is known for his contributions on hedging, the theory of futures prices – which anticipated the efficient market hypothesis, an early theory of market maker behavior, and the theory of...
- 1982 Frank Proschan
- 1983 W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards DemingWilliam Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan...
- 1984 Z.W. Birnbaum
- 1985 Leo A. Goodman
- 1986 Frederick Mosteller
- 1988 C.R. Rao
- 1990 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...
- 1991 Ingram OlkinIngram OlkinIngram Olkin is a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford University School of Education...
- 1992 Wilfrid Dixon
- 1993 Norman L. Johnson
- 1994 Emanuel ParzenEmanuel ParzenEmanuel Parzen is an American statistician. He has worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation . Parzen is the recipient of the 1994 Samuel S...
- 1995 Donald RubinDonald RubinDonald Bruce Rubin is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He was hired by Harvard in 1984, and served as chair of the department from 1985-1994....
- 1996 Erich L. Lehmann
- 1997 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....
- 1998 David O. Siegmund
- 1999 Lynne Billard
- 2000 Stephen FienbergStephen FienbergStephen Elliott Fienberg is the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University....
- 2001 George C. Tiao
- 2002 Lawrence D. BrownLawrence D. BrownLawrence D. Brown is Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964...
- 2003 David L. Wallace
- 2004 Paul MeierPaul Meier (statistician)Paul Meier was a statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine. He is also known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment.-External links:...
- 2005 Roderick Joseph A. Little
- 2006 Marvin Zelen
- 2007 Colin L. Mallows
- 2008 Scott Zeger
- 2009 Lee-Jen WeiLee-Jen WeiLee-Jen Wei is professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975. The American Statistical Association gave him the Wilks Memorial Award in 2009 ""for statistical methods used in clinical trials."...
- 2010 Pranab K. SenPranab K. SenPranab Kumar Sen is a statistician, a professor of statistics and the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Academic biography:...
- 2011 Nan LairdNan LairdNan M. Laird is a professor in Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. She served as Chair of the Department from 1990 to 1999. She was the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics from 1991 to 1999. Laird is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, as well as the...