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An Evening Spent with Bill van Zwet
Willem Rutger van Zwet was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on March 31,
1934. He received his high school education at the Gymnasium Haganum in The
Hague and obtained his Masters degree in Mathematics at the University of
Leiden in 1959. After serving in the army for almost two years, he obtained his
Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1964, with Jan Hemelrijk as advisor. In
1965, he was appointed Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of
Leiden and promoted to Full Professor in 1968. He remained in Leiden until his
retirement in 1999, while also serving as Associate Professor at the University
of Oregon (1965), William Newman Professor at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill (1990--1996), frequent visitor and Miller Professor (1997) at
the University of California at Berkeley, director of the Thomas Stieltjes
Institute of Mathematics in the Netherlands (1992--1999), and founding director
of the European research institute EURANDOM (1997--2000). At Leiden, he was
Dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (1982--1984). He served
as chair of the scientific council and member of the board of the Mathematics
Centre at Amsterdam (1983--1996) and the Leiden University Fund (1993--2005).Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-STS261 the Statistical
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A Conversation with Robert V. Hogg
Robert Vincent Hogg was born on November 8, 1924 in Hannibal, Missouri. He
earned a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Iowa in 1950, where his
advisor was Allen Craig. Following graduation, he joined the mathematics
faculty at the University of Iowa. He was the founding Chair when the
Department of Statistics was created at Iowa in 1965 and he served in that
capacity for 19 years. At Iowa he also served as Chair of the Quality
Management and Productivity Program and the Hanson Chair of Manufacturing
Productivity. He became Professor Emeritus in 2001 after 51 years on the Iowa
faculty. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the
American Statistical Association plus an Elected Member of the International
Statistical Institute. He was President of the American Statistical Association
(1988) and chaired two of its winter conferences (1992, 1994). He received the
ASA's Founder's Award (1991) and the Gottfried Noether Award (2001) for
contributions to nonparametric statistics. His publications through 1996 are
described in Communications in Statistics--Theory and Methods (1996),
2467--2481. This interview was conducted on April 14, 2004 at the Department of
Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and revised in the
summer of 2006.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000637 in the
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Celebrating 70: An Interview with Don Berry
Donald (Don) Arthur Berry, born May 26, 1940 in Southbridge, Massachusetts,
earned his A.B. degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College and his M.A. and
Ph.D. in statistics from Yale University. He served first on the faculty at the
University of Minnesota and subsequently held endowed chair positions at Duke
University and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Center. At the time of the
interview he served as Head of the Division of Quantitative Sciences, and
Chairman and Professor of the Department of Biostatistics at UT M.D. Anderson
Center.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS366 the Statistical
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Towards understanding models for statistical literacy: A literature review.
Despite statistical literacy being relatively new in statistics education research, it needs special attention as attempts are being made to enhance the teaching, learning and assessing of this strand. It is important that teachers are aware of the challenges of teaching this literacy. The growing importance of statistics in today's information world and conceptions and components of statistical literacy are outlined. Frameworks for developing statistical literacy from research literature are considered next. Strengths and weaknesses of the models are considered. Examples of tasks used in statistics education research are provided to explain the levels of thinking. The paper concludes with some implications for teaching and research
Greater data science at baccalaureate institutions
Donoho's JCGS (in press) paper is a spirited call to action for
statisticians, who he points out are losing ground in the field of data science
by refusing to accept that data science is its own domain. (Or, at least, a
domain that is becoming distinctly defined.) He calls on writings by John
Tukey, Bill Cleveland, and Leo Breiman, among others, to remind us that
statisticians have been dealing with data science for years, and encourages
acceptance of the direction of the field while also ensuring that statistics is
tightly integrated.
As faculty at baccalaureate institutions (where the growth of undergraduate
statistics programs has been dramatic), we are keen to ensure statistics has a
place in data science and data science education. In his paper, Donoho is
primarily focused on graduate education. At our undergraduate institutions, we
are considering many of the same questions.Comment: in press response to Donoho paper in Journal of Computational
Graphics and Statistic
OFFICIAL STATISTICS: ABOVE AND BELOW THE PUBLIC DEBATE. THIRTIETH GEARY LECTURE, 1999
Roy Geary was a person of great distinction, recognised for a wide range of achievements. He was a first class mathematician who made significant contributions to statistical theory. He was an Official Statistician of distinction and he made great contributions to the development of economic statistics and to the use of statistics for policy purposes in fields as diverse as demography and economic statistics. He was the first Director of the Central Statistics Office when it was created in 1949 and I am delighted to be asked to present this lecture in the CSOâs 50th birthday year
Numbering same-sex couples in censuses and population registers
The recommendations recently issued by the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) for the next round of population and housing censuses underline for the first time that some countries might find it in their interest to enumerate same-sex couples. Many pitfalls can be expected when such a sensitive topic is newly included in a census. The experience of the few western countries that have already taken initiatives in this direction helps identify difficulties to be faced and suggest "good practices" to be adopted. Coverage is extended to countries which rely on permanent registers rather than periodic censuses to enumerate their population.censuses, population registers, same-sex couples
A Conversation with David R. Brillinger
David Ross Brillinger was born on the 27th of October 1937, in Toronto,
Canada. In 1955, he entered the University of Toronto, graduating with a B.A.
with Honours in Pure Mathematics in 1959, while also serving as a Lieutenant in
the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve. He was one of the five winners of the Putnam
mathematical competition in 1958. He then went on to obtain his M.A. and Ph.D.
in Mathematics at Princeton University, in 1960 and 1961, the latter under the
guidance of John W. Tukey. During the period 1962--1964 he held halftime
appointments as a Lecturer in Mathematics at Princeton, and a Member of
Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. In
1964, he was appointed Lecturer and, two years later, Reader in Statistics at
the London School of Economics. After spending a sabbatical year at Berkeley in
1967--1968, he returned to become Professor of Statistics in 1970, and has been
there ever since. During his 40 years (and counting) as a faculty member at
Berkeley, he has supervised 40 doctoral theses. He has a record of academic and
professional service and has received a number of honors and awards.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-STS324 the Statistical
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