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Program
Date: August 1, 2009
Location: Duques Hall, Room 651 D
2201 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Sponsor: Department of Statistics,
George Washington University
After receiving his PhD in Statistics from Columbia in 1963, Prof. Gastwirth
spent an academic year as a post-doctoral research associate at Stanford
with Prof. Herbert Solomon and Prof. Herman Chernoff. He spent the
next eight years at the Department of Statistics of the Johns Hopkins University.
After a year as Visiting Faculty Advisor in the Office of Statistical
Policy of the Executive Office of the President in the US Government,
he became a Professor of Statistics at George Washington
University.
Prof. Gastwirth was a Visiting Professor at MIT and a Guggenheim
Foundation Fellow at UC Davis. He was also statistical consultant for
the Office of Information and Regulatory Analysis of Office of
Management and Budget of the US Government, and Visiting Scientist at
the Biostatistics Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and
Genetics of the National Cancer Institute.
Prof. Gastwirth is a Fellow of ASA (1970), IMS (1972), and AAS
(1971), and an elected member of ISI (1980). He received the
Washington Statistical Society Award (1969), and the Shiskin Award
for Economic Statistics (1998), and was a co-recipient of ASA's Award
for the Outstanding Applications Article (2002). He was President of Washington
Statistical Society (1982-1983) and a member and chairman of many
scientific committees of ASA.
This conference recognizes his outstanding contributions to the development
of nonparametric and robust methods and their use in genetic
epidemiology, his pioneering research in statistical methods and
measurement for the analysis of data arising in the areas of
economic inequality, health disparities and equal employment, and in
other legal applications as well as his most successful supervision
of Ph D students, collaborations with other young researchers and
outstanding professional service. Prof. Gastwirth has published
two books in legal statistics and over 160 peer-reviewed statistical
papers.
Program Committee: Colin
Aitken, Efstathia Bura, Mitchell Gail, Joel Greenhouse, Wesley
Johnson, David Kaye, Abba Krieger, Zhaohai Li, Nancy Spruill, Scott
Zeger, and Gang Zheng
Selected papers of the
conference will be published by two journals: Law, Probability and risk (http://lpr.oxfordjournals.org/)
and Statistics
and Its Interface (http://www.intlpress.com/SII/).
Registration for the
conference is free. Please fill out the registration form online or
and e-mail it to zhengg@nhlbi.nih.gov
or fax it to (301) 480 - 1862.
For more information,
please contact: Dr. Gang Zheng at: zhengg@nhlbi.nih.gov
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