August 2016:
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Chris Bilder was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association during a ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings on August 2nd. The corresponding press release is available at http://www.amstat.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2016-ASAFellows.pdf. The citation associated with the award was "For influential contributions in categorical data analysis and group testing methods; for leadership in the field of statistics education, especially the innovative use of computer technology; and for extensive departmental and ASA service."
The Department of Statistics has now had one of its faculty members made a Fellow in each of the last three years (Bertrand Clarke in 2014, Erin Blankenship in 2015) leading to four current faculty being Fellows (includes Walt Stroup in 2008). Overall, less than 1/3 of 1% of all American Statistical Association members become Fellows each year.
Statistcs Alumni Nate Ngo is the U.S. Men's Volleyball Team Technical Coordinator
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/USA-Teams/Indoor-Volleyball/Men/National-Team-Staff/Nate-Ngo
August 2015:
Milton Mohr Fellowships
Congratulations to Julie Couton, Nadeeshani Jayasena, Dola Pathak, and Marina Ptukina for being awarded Milton Mohr Fellowships! This fellowship is awarded to Graduate Teaching Assistants for excelence in teaching at UNL.
Welcome to our 2015 new students!
Jason Adams, Johnna Baller, Kevin Beaty, Pengxin Chao, Ryan Danczak, Jessica Hauschild, Jinyu Li, Thao Vu, Ronghao Wang, Ranil Weekerackoon, Xianchao Xiang, and Fang Zou
March 2015:
Q&A with UNL’s Director of Computational Sciences Initiative " by Jennifer Clarke
Dr. Jennifer Clarke was interviewed by the American Statistical Association on what her current projects and her academic background
Dr. McCutcheon invited to deliver Distinguished Lecture for JPSM
Dr. Allan McCutcheon has been invited to give the 2015 Distinguished Lecture for the JPSM at the University of Maryland. This honor was given to outstanding statisticians like J.N.K. Rao, Donald Rubin, and Rod Little
Dr. McCutcheon invited to talk at the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academy of Science
Dr. Allan McCutcheon has been invited to give a presentation at the May meeting of the Committee on National Statistics (CNStat) at the National Academy of Science in Washington, DC
December 2014:
Women flocking to statistics, the newly hot, high-tech field of data science
Dr. Erin Blankenship along with Marina Ptukhina, Aimee Schwab and Dola Pathak were interviewed for a Washington Post article on the rapid growth of women pursuing careers in statistics. Learn More about Women in Statistics
August 2014:
Bert Clarke recognized as ASA Fellow
For significant contributions to statistical theory and methodology in Bayesian inference, blending statistics with information theory to address applications in machine learning and large-scale data analysis, and for editorial service to the profession. ASA Fellows are members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work. Given annually, this is a great honor, as the number of recipients is limited to no more than one-third of 1% of the ASA membership. Learn more about ASA Fellows
Chris Bilder receives Outstanding Statistical Application Award
The Award of Outstanding Statistical Application is awarded to Joshua M. Tebbs, Christopher S. McMahan, and Christopher R. Bilder for their seminal work on classification and estimation for multiple infections in group testing procedures. Their paper, titled "Two-Stage Hierarchical Group Testing for Multiple Infections with Application to the Infertility Prevention Project," was published in Biometrics in 2013. Learn more about this award.
Erin Blankenship and Jennifer L. Green win Jackie Dietz Best JSE Paper Award
To Jennifer L. Green and Erin Blankenship for their paper "Primarily Statistics: Developing an Introductory Statistics Course for Pre-service Elementary Teachers." This award is given annually to the best paper among all those appearing in the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) in a given year. The 2014 Best JSE Paper Award is given this year in honor of Jackie Deitz for her contributions to Statistics Education. Learn more about the Jackie Dietz Best JSE Paper Award.
Schwab Wins Best Paper at JSM
Congratulations Aimee Schwab on winning the best paper award for Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences at JSM this year! JSM (the Joint Statistical Meetings) is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America, organized by the American Statistical Association. Learn More about JSM
New Graduate Students
With the start of the school year comes a new group of graduate students. We’d like to welcome Jessica Burow, Jana Carmichael, Kelsey Karnik, McKenna Mettling, and Nur Firyal Roslan to the PhD program! We wish these ladies luck as they begin their graduate studies with us at Nebraska.
July 2014:
The Department of Statistics would like to welcome Dr. Yumou Qiu as our newest Assistant Professor. Dr. Qiu earned his PhD from Iowa State University and is interested in high-dimensional statistical inference problems. We are very excited to have Dr. Qiu join our department!
Department of Statistics Newsletters 2014
Bertrand Clarke introduces the Department of Statistics Newsletter. Read articles like Stats and Facts About the Department, Recent Graduates and Current Jobs, Statistics Graduate Student Association, Graduate Fellowship, Student Awards, Student Presenters at JSM, Alumni News, New in Lincoln, New at UNL, Faculty News and more.
Download the Newsletter
The 2014 edition of the Department of Statistics Newsletter recently went out to alumni and friends of the program. If you have announcements you’d like to see in the 2015 newsletter, please contact Istvan (Steve) Ladunga.
August 2013:
Brianna Bright and Julia Soulakova were honored by the ASA Survey Research Methods Section at the Joint Statistical Meetings with the Best Poster Presentation Award. The title of their poster was "On Simultaneous Interval Estimating the Relative Prevalence of Forward Shifting in Reported Regular Smoking Initiation Age."