ALEXANDRIA, VA - June 4, 2003 - The American Statistical Association today announced the election of 54 of its 16,500 members as Fellows of the Association, a recognition of outstanding professional contribution to and leadership in the field of statistical science. The designation of Fellow has been a superlative honor in the society for nearly ninety years. The Fellows will be awarded at a ceremony at the Association's 163rd annual Joint Statistical Meetings, taking place August 3-7, 2003, in San Francisco, California.

According to ASA By-Laws, in order to be honored with the title of Fellow, members must have an established reputation and have made an outstanding contribution in some aspect of statistical work. The Committee on Fellows evaluates candidates' contributions to the advancements of statistics, giving due weight to publications, the positions held by the candidates in the organizations in which they are employed, activities within the Association, membership and attainments in other societies, and other professional activities. The case for each candidate is judged individually, with no one of these criterion governing selection to the exclusion of the others.

Members of the 2003 Committee on Fellows included Judith D. Goldberg, Chair, Richard F. Gunst, Daniel Kasprzyk, Nancy J. Kirkendall, James M. Landwehr, William Q. Meeker, Ingram Olkin, Javier Rojo, and Jane-Ling Wang. Each year, the Committee on Fellows can only elect one-third of one percent of the total membership. "These fifty-four new Fellows have all made contributions that reflect the broad impact of statistics on our society", said Goldberg. Attached is a list of this year's honorees, including their names, titles, and affiliations.

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NAMED AS FELLOWS OF THE American Statistical Association IN 2003
(Names listed in alphabetical order)

Katharine C. Abraham , Professor of Survey Methodology, University of Maryland: For exceptional leadership as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; for oversight of implementation of improvements to vital government statistics; and contributions to research, particularly in labor market analysis.

Lee R. Abramson , Senior Research Statistician, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: For excellence in consulting and risk analysis applied to nuclear reactor safety; for contributions to the statistical education of K-12 students and teachers; and for service to the profession.

Greg M. Allenby , Helen C. Kurtz Chair in Marketing, Ohio State University: For outstanding contributions to research and applications of statistics in marketing; for contributions to the analysis of discrete data; for service to the profession.

Mary K. Batcher , Principal and Director of Statistics and Sampling, Ernst & Young LLP: For entrepreneurship in business applications of statistics; for leadership in developing and mentoring statisticians; for outstanding service to the profession.

Jay M. Bennett , Principal Scientist, Telcordia Technologies: For innovative statistical research in baseball and communicating the results and fundamental statistical ideas to the general public; for contributions to telecommunications through methodology for quantifying outage performance and software reliability.

Rebecca A. Betensky , Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health: For important contributions to methods for sequential analysis of clinical trials, survival analysis, and genetic epidemiology; for applications of statistics to cancer and neurology research; and for service to the profession.

Lawrence D. Brown , Miers Busch Professor of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: For path-breaking contributions to statistical theory and methodology; for editorial service and leadership of statistical organizations; for service to the profession.

Philip J. Brown , Pfizer Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Kent: For sustained excellence in research in statistics, especially in multivariate analysis and model selection; for innovative work in chemometrics and in election forecasting; for consulting activities with the media on forecasting; and for service to the profession.

Cavell Brownie , Professor of Statistics, North Carolina State University: For major contributions to the capture-recapture literature; for innovative statistical research; for excellence in teaching; and for important collaborations with scientists.

George Y. H. Chi, Director, Division of Biometrics I, Food and Drug Administration: For outstanding, sustained efforts in providing leadership and technical and administrative guidance in the statistical evaluation of pharmaceutical products; and for advancing research in regulatory statistics.

Cindy L. Christiansen , Head of Statistics, Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research, VA HSR&D, and Associate Professor Boston University School of Public Health: For contributions to the development of hierarchical models and their applications to health policy research, in particular, for mammography, organ transplantation, and medical profiling; for creative statistical administration; and for service to the profession

John L. Czajka , Senior Sociologist, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, DC: For excellence in research and consulting to federal statistical and policy agencies; for contributions to the knowledge and use of administrative records for statistical purposes; for outstanding leadership and service to the sections and chapters of the American Statistical Association.

Philip M. Dixon , Professor of Statistics, Iowa State University: For excellent and sustained interdisciplinary research in statistics and the biological sciences, for exceptional educational contributions, and for service to the profession.

James Filliben , Supervisory Mathematical Statistician, National Institute of Standards and Technology: For exemplary work in statistical consulting with physical scientists and engineers; for leadership in the development of statistical software and for technical contributions of national importance.

Garrett M. Fitzmaurice , Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard University: For outstanding contributions to methodological research on repeated binary data; contributions as an educator in Biostatistics; for contributions to statistical methods for psychiatric epidemiology; and for editorial service to the profession.

Dean Follmann , Assistant Institute Director, Biostatistics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: For significant contributions to statistical methodology of clinical trials; for insightful consulting on statistical problems; and for service to the profession.

William Kam Fung , Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong: For pioneering research in statistical forensics and DNA profiling; for outstanding contributions in classification and discriminant analysis, model adequacy and influence analysis, and outlier detection; and for consulting service to the profession through teaching and dissemination of knowledge to the forensic scientific community.

Richard M. Heiberger , Professor of Statistics, Temple University: For outstanding and continued contributions to the development of statistical software, especially in the areas of linear models, design of experiments, user interfaces, and time series; and for service to the profession.

James S. Hodges , Senior Research Associate, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota: For methodological contributions in hierarchical modeling, diagnostics, spatial statistics and statistical computing; for substantive contributions to statistical applications in military, AIDS, and dental research problems; for extensive editorial service to the profession.

Burt Holland , Professor of Statistics, Temple University: For outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of statistics, especially in the area of multiple comparisons; for exemplary contributions to teaching and administration as chair of a statistics department; and for excellence in statistical consulting.

Carol C. House , Associate Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service: For exceptional leadership in multiagency statistical applications, seminal developments of computer assisted interviewing techniques for economic and agricultural surveys; and for dedicated service to the Council on Sections.

John T. Kent , Professor of Statistics, University of Leeds: For his influential and wide-ranging research contributions to statistics and probability, especially in the fields of multivariate analysis, statistical inference and spatial statistics; for his academic leadership; and for his extensive editorial service to the profession.

Ravindra Khattree , Professor of Applied Statistics, Oakland University: For important contributions to the development of statistical methods, for promoting statistics by writing for diverse audiences, for editorial work, and for innovative contributions to statistical education.

Lynn Kuo , Professor of Statistics, University of Connecticut: For importantcontributions to nonparametric Bayesian statistics, and decision theory; and for service to the profession.

Hira L. Koul , Professor, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University: For outstanding contributions to nonparametric and semiparametric inference; for research in time series, robustness and stochastic processes; for teaching and mentoring of students; and for continued editorial service to the profession.

Wai K. Li , Personal Chair Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong: For outstanding contributions to time series analysis, especially in nonlinear and non-stationary analyses, volatility modeling, non and semi-parametric methods, and long memory processes; for strong administrative service to the profession; and for editorial service.

Robert W. Makuch , Professor and Head of Biostatistics, Yale University Department of Epidemiology and Public Health: For expert statistical consultation to government and the pharmaceutical industry; for innovative methodological contributions to the design and analysis of clinical trials; and for outstanding administration of an academic biostatistics division.

Geert Molenberghs , Professor of Biostatistics, Limburgs University Centrum, Belgium: For seminal contributions to methodological research on longitudinal data, clustered data, categorical data, and missing data methods in clinical trials; for wide ranging educational and consulting efforts; and for exceptional editorial and administrative services to the profession.

Nitis Mukhopadhyay , Professor of Statistics, University of Connecticut: For outstanding research contributions in sequential analysis, multistage sampling, selection and ranking; for exemplary editorial work and excellence in teaching and student advising; and for exceptional service in preserving the history of statistics.

Peter Mueller , Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: For innovative contributions to numerical integration in Bayesian Statistics and to a variety of types of modeling; and for service to the profession.

Balgobin Nandram , Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute: For contributions in Bayesian hierarchical models and finite population sampling; and for successful efforts in mentoring students.

Margaret A. Nemeth , Associate Fellow and Team Leader, Statistics Technology Center, Monsanto Company: For excellence in developing statistical methodologies, consulting and collaborative research in agricultural chemical science, biotechnology, and manufacturing technologies; for leadership in promoting statistical science; and for service to the profession.

Robert L. Newcomb , Director, Center for Statistical Consulting, University of California, Irvine: For service as an outstanding ambassador of the statistics profession through passionate and inspirational teaching, by mentoring students, and extraordinary contributions at the local and national levels; and for skill, leadership, and vision in consulting.

John M. Neuhaus , Professor of Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco: For strong contributions to statistical methodology and performance of important collaborative research; and for editorial service.

Sarah Nusser , Director, Center for Survey Research and Methodology, Iowa State University: For significant contributions to theory and practice in survey sampling methods and their application to natural resource problems; and for outstanding service to the profession.

Nitin R. Patel , Executive Vice President and Founder, Cytel Inc.: For outstanding applications of optimization techniques to exact permutational inference for contingency tables and discrete regression models; and for the conversion of these approaches into major software for statistics.

Trivellore Raghunathan , Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan: For fundamental contributions to the theory and application of statistics to sample surveys and epidemiology; outstanding teaching of statistics at basic and advanced levels; and for editorial and other services to the profession.

Gary L. Rosner , Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: For innovative contributions to sequential clinical trials and pharmacokinetic and pharmacokdynamic modeling; and for leadership in the development of a joint Ph.D. program in Biostatistics with Rice University.

Glen Alan Satten , Mathematical Statistician, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: For development of innovative statistical methods for the monitoring of the HIV/AIDS epidemic; for methodologic contributions in survival analysis and analysis of epidemiologic studies; and for service to the profession.

Nathan E. Savin , George Daly Professor of Economics, University of Iowa: For exceptional contributions to research in econometrics particularly dealing with hypothesis tests, autocorrelation, and unit roots in time series, and for encouraging the application of statistics to economics, and for service to the profession.

Thomas H. Savits , Professor of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh: For innovative development of the foundations of engineering reliability theory; for research contributions in multivariate life classes, models of dependence, and applied probability; for service in the formation of a department of statistics; and for continued service to the profession.

Marilyn M. Seastrom , Chief Statistician, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education: For excellence in leadership to improve the quality and accessibility of education statistics; and for service to the profession.

Mark R. Segal , Professor of Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco: For pioneering contributions to the development of methodology, especially tree-structured regression, survival analysis and longitudinal data analysis; for wide ranging and important collaborative research on HIV disease and molecular biology; and for strong service to the profession.

C. Frank Shen , Executive Director, Exploratory Development, Global Biostatistics and Programming, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute: For leadership and important contributions to biostatistics in nonclinical and exploratory clinical drug development in the pharmaceutical industry; and for dedicated service to the profession.

Nancy L. Spruill , Director, Aquisition Resources and Analysis, Office of the Secretary of Defense: For exceptional leadership in the national defense statistical community; and for increasing the visibility of statisticians and statistics within the Defense Department.

Neal Thomas , Senior Associate Director of Biostatistics, Pfizer Inc.: For innovative statistical contributions to areas of practical importance including propensity score matching, item response models, matrix sampling, empirical Bayes methods, and multiple imputation; and for insightful and pricipled applications to diverse areas such as health economics, educational statistics, and pharmaceutical development.

Ram Chandra Tiwari , Mathematical Statistician and Program Director, National Cancer Institute: For outstanding research contributions in Bayesian nonparametric statistics and survival analysis; for exemplary statistical support in cancer research; for leadership and service to the profession.

Kwok-Leung Tsui , Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology: For significant contributions to robust parameter design, statistical process control, data mining, and industrial statistics; for his leading role in the interface between statistics and industrial engineering and for services to the profession.

Alan R. Tupek , Chief, Demographic Statistical Methods Division, U. S. Census Bureau: For leadership in introducing innovative technological advances in survey data collection, processing, and dissemination; for leadership in the development of statistical methodologies for household surveys; and for service to the profession.

Harrison M. Wadsworth, Jr. , Professor Emeritus, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology: For important services to the Association, especially in the areas of national and international standards; for significant editorial contributions, and for substantial influence through book publications.

Lance A. Waller , Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Emory University: For innovative contributions to the statistics of spatial epidemiology, disease mapping, cluster detection, and environmental justice; and for service to the profession.

Ronald L. Wasserstein, Professor of Statistics and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Washburn University. For distinguished, energetic, and reliable service to the profession through sections, committees at the local and national level, and the Board of Directors; and for providing statistical leadership on campus and through consulting on state government problems.

Robert Erin Weiss , Professor of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health: For research in Bayesian model specification, diagnostics, and data analysis; for contributions to longitudinal and hierarchical data modeling; for varied statistical modeling in data applications; and for service to the profession.

Robert A. Wolfe , Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan: For leadership in applications of statistical science to the analysis of transplant registry data; and for excellence in mentoring students.