Personal reflections on the COPSS Presidents’ Award

I received the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 1988, one year after Jeff Wu and one year before Peter Hall. I was the eighth recipient.I had just moved to Texas A&M in fall 1987, and did not know that Cliff Spiegelman, also still at Texas A&M, had nominated me. I remember very clearly being told...

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Published inPast, Present, and Future of Statistical Science pp. 595 - 604
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Chapman and Hall/CRC 2014
Subjects
False Discovery Rate
ASA President
Quantile Regression
SPB
Salinity Data
JASA
Anniversary
Animal Studies
Pamlico Sound
Funny Time
Wander
Joint Statistical Meetings
Functional Data Analysis
Diet Rich
Corn Oil
Peter Hall
Nutritional Epidemiology
High Leverage Point
Fun Paper
InterAmerican Tropical Tuna Commission
Normal Theory Maximum Likelihood
Award Committee
Genetic Epidemiology
Tour
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DOI10.1201/b16720-55

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Summary:I received the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 1988, one year after Jeff Wu and one year before Peter Hall. I was the eighth recipient.I had just moved to Texas A&M in fall 1987, and did not know that Cliff Spiegelman, also still at Texas A&M, had nominated me. I remember very clearly being told about this honor. I was working at home, and out of the blue I received a phone call from the head of the Presidents’ Award Committee, about a month before the Joint Statistical Meetings in New Orleans, and he asked, roughly, “are you going to the JSM in New Orleans?” I actually had not planned on it, and he told me I probably should since I had won the Presidents’ Award. I remember being very happy, and I know I took the rest of the day off and just floated around.
DOI:10.1201/b16720-55