President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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The President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(IMS), and, together with the President-Elect
and Past President, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.
(CBMS). In addition, he or she is an ex officio member of the corporation of the National Institute for Statistical Sciences (NISS), and is responsible for appointing another member of the corporation and a member of the NISS Board of Trustees.
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts of the world...
(IMS), and, together with the 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, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.
Duties
According to the IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs (2003), the President makes appointments to IMS committee vacancies, represents the Society to other organizations such as the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and the Conference Board of the Mathematical SciencesConference Board of the Mathematical Sciences
The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences is an umbrella organization of seventeen professional societies in the mathematical sciences in the United States.-Member societies:* AMATYC American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges...
(CBMS). In addition, he or she is an ex officio member of the corporation of the National Institute for Statistical Sciences (NISS), and is responsible for appointing another member of the corporation and a member of the NISS Board of Trustees.
20th century
- 1936 Henry L. Rietz
- 1937 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...
- 1938 Burton H. Camp
- 1939 Paul R. Rider
- 1940 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....
- 1941 Harold HotellingHarold HotellingHarold Hotelling was a mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist.He was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the...
- 1942-43 Cecil C. Craig
- 1944 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...
- 1945 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...
- 1946 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....
- 1947 William FellerWilliam FellerWilliam Feller born Vilibald Srećko Feller , was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.-Early life and education:...
- 1948 Abraham WaldAbraham Wald- See also :* Sequential probability ratio test * Wald distribution* Wald–Wolfowitz runs test...
- 1949 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:...
- 1950 Joseph Leo DoobJoseph Leo DoobJoseph Leo Doob was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.The theory of martingales was developed by Doob.-Early life and education:...
- 1951 Paul S. Dwyer
- 1952 Meyer A. Girshick
- 1953 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:...
- 1954 Edwin G. Olds
- 1955 Henry SchefféHenry SchefféHenry Scheffé was an American statistician. He is known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and Scheffé's method.- External links :...
- 1956 David BlackwellDavid Blackwell-Honors and awards:*President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1956*National Academy of Sciences, 1965*American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968*Honorary Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, 1976*Vice President, American Statistical Association, 1978...
- 1957 Alexander Mood
- 1958 Leonard Jimmie SavageLeonard Jimmie SavageLeonard Jimmie Savage was an American mathematician and statistician. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said Savage was "one of the few people I have met whom I would unhesitatingly call a genius."...
- 1959 Jacob WolfowitzJacob WolfowitzJacob Wolfowitz was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz....
- 1960 John TukeyJohn TukeyJohn Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American statistician.- Biography :Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1915, and obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in 1937, in chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton University where he received a Ph.D...
- 1961 Erich L. Lehmann
- 1962 Albert H. Bowker
- 1963 Theodore W. Anderson
- 1964 Z. W. Birnbaum
- 1965 Herbert Solomon
- 1966 Herbert RobbinsHerbert RobbinsHerbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician who did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. He was the co-author, with Richard Courant, of What is Mathematics?, a popularization that is still in print. The Robbins lemma, used in...
- 1967 Ted HarrisTed Harris (mathematician)Theodore E. Harris was anAmerican mathematician known for his research on stochastic processes, including such areas as general state-space Markov chains , the theory of branching...
- 1968 Herman ChernoffHerman ChernoffHerman Chernoff is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and currently working at Harvard University.-Education:* Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 1948. Brown University....
- 1969 Wassily HoeffdingWassily HoeffdingWassily Hoeffding was an American statistician and probabilist...
- 1970 Jack KieferJack Kiefer (mathematician)Jack Carl Kiefer was an American statistician.- Biography :Jack Kiefer was born on January 25, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Carl Jack Kiefer and Marguerite K. Rosenau...
- 1971 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...
- 1972 Raj Chandra BoseRaj Chandra BoseRaj Chandra Bose was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He was notable for his work along with S. S. Shrikhande and E. T...
- 1973 Lucien Le CamLucien le CamLucien Marie Le Cam was a mathematician and statistician. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of California, Berkeley, was appointed Assistant Professor in 1953 and continued working there beyond his retirement in 1991 until his death.Le Cam was the major figure during the period 1950...
- 1974 R. R. Bahadur
- 1975 Frederick Mosteller
- 1976 Donald L. Burkholder
- 1977 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
- 1978 Elizabeth Scott
- 1979 Samuel KarlinSamuel KarlinSamuel Karlin was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.Karlin was born in Yanova, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child...
- 1980 George E. P. BoxGeorge E. P. Box- External links :* from a at NIST* * * * * *** For Box's PhD students see*...
- 1981 Peter J. BickelPeter J. BickelPeter John Bickel is an American statistician, Professor of Statistics in University of California, Berkeley, who is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences...
- 1982 Mark KacMark KacMark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...
- 1983 Patrick BillingsleyPatrick BillingsleyPatrick Paul Billingsley was an American mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics. He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.After earning a Ph.D...
- 1984 Ingram OlkinIngram OlkinIngram Olkin is a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford University School of Education...
- 1985 Oscar KempthorneOscar KempthorneOscar Kempthorne was a statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science...
- 1986 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:...
- 1987 Ronald Pyke
- 1988 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...
- 1989 Ram Gnanadesikan
- 1990 Shanti S. Gupta
- 1991 David O. Siegmund
- 1992 Willem van Zwet
- 1993 Larry Brown
- 1994 Stephen StiglerStephen StiglerStephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics...
- 1995 David R. Brillinger
- 1996 James O. Berger
- 1997 Nancy ReidNancy ReidNancy Margaret Reid is a Canadian theoretical statistician.She was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia from 1980–5, then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988.Reid won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1992 and...
- 1998 Persi DiaconisPersi DiaconisPersi Warren Diaconis is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University....
- 1999 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....
21st century
- 2000 Morris Eaton
- 2001 Bernard SilvermanBernard SilvermanBernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
- 2002 Iain Johnstone
- 2003 S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
- 2004 Terry SpeedTerry SpeedProfessor Terence Paul Speed, or Terry Speed , is an Australian statistician, known for his contributions to the analysis of variance and bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarrays data....
- 2005 Louis Chen Hsiao YunLouis Chen Hsiao YunLouis Chen Hsiao Yun is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor of mathematics at the National University of Singapore.Yun earned his BSc from University of Singapore in 1964 and completed his MSc as well as PhD at Stanford University in 1969 and 1971 respectively. In 1972, he joined the Mathematics...
- 2006 Thomas G. Kurtz
- 2007 Jim Pitman
- 2008 Jianqing FanJianqing FanJianqing Fan , is a Chinese statistician. He is the current Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, and Professor of Statistics at the Princeton University...
- 2009 Nanny Wermuth
- 2010 J. Michael SteeleJ. Michael SteeleJohn Michael Steele is C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he was previously affiliated with Stanford University, Columbia University and Princeton University....
- 2011 Peter Gavin Hall
- 2012 Ruth J. Williams
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