International Representative 2011
Raymond Chambers
I am honored to be nominated for the position of International Representative on the ASA Board of Directors. The ASA is arguably the most influential professional statistics body in the world, with an international influence on how statistics are collected and used. The large number of internationally based statisticians who are members of the ASA, reflects this impact. I see the role of International Representative on the ASA Board of Directors as a means by which this international membership can contribute to discussions surrounding ASA policies and initiatives, particularly those that involve the interaction of the ASA with national statistical associations and organizations.
I also regard some of the flagship ASA activities (e.g. the JSM) as having an extremely important international dimension, and will seek to ensure the interests of the ASA’s international members are taken into account.
Present Position: Professor of Statistical Methodology, University of Wollongong, since 2006.
Former Positions: Director, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (2003–2005); Head, Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton (UoS, 2000–2003); Leverhulme Professor of Social Statistics, UoS (1999–2005); Professor, Department of Social Statistics, UoS (1996–1998); Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Australian National University (1991–1995); Senior Statistician, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE, 1990–1991); Officer in Charge, Survey Design and Development Section, ABARE (1983– 1989); Supervisor, Development and Research Section, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, 1982); Various research officer positions at the ABS (1973–1982).
Degrees: PhD (1982, biostatistics), The Johns Hopkins University; MSc (1975, statistics), Australian National University; BSc (Honors, 1972, mathematical statistics), University of Western Australia.
Fields of Major Statistical Activities: I have worked in official statistics, social statistics and statistical consulting. My specific areas of interest are sample survey design and estimation, analysis of complex survey data, robust statistical methods and statistical modeling and inference.
Publications: 1. Chambers, R. L. and Skinner, C. J. (Editors) (2003). Analysis of Survey Data. Wiley: Chichester. 2. Chambers, R. L. (1986). “Outlier Robust Finite Population Estimation.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81, 1063–1069. 3. Breckling, J. U., Chambers, R. L., Dorfman, A. H., Tam, S. M. and Welsh, A. H. (1994). “Maximum Likelihood Inference from Survey Data.” International Statistical Review, 62, 349–363. I have also published papers in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A, B and C), Biometrika, Biometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Survey Methodology, Journal of Official Statistics, Statistical Methods and Applications, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Economic Journal, CHANCE and Statistics in Transition.
International Representative 2011
Baiqi Miao
Present Position: Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China
Former Positions: Academic Positions 1998–2004. Deputy Dean, School of Business, USTC 1995–2009 Chair, Department of Statistics and Finance, USTC 1995 Professor, Department of Statistics and Finance, USTC 1993–1995 Professor, Department of Mathematics, USTC 1988–1993 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, USTC 1983–1988 Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, USTC 1973–1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, USTC
Other Professional Positions: 2002-Acting director, Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics 2000; Co-editor, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China 2009; Vice president of Chinese Applied Statistical Association 1998–2009; Vice president of Anhui Applied Statistical Association 2010; President of Anhui Applied Statistical Association 2001; Acting director, Anhui Society of Actuaries
Degrees: 1985 PhD, statistics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC); 1982 MS, statistics, University of Science and Technology of China; 1969 BS, mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China
Fields of Major Statistical Activities: Change-point statistical inference and its application in economics, non-parametric statistics, asymptotic distribution for large-dimension random matrices spectrum, curriculum evaluation, ruin probability and credit risk analysis, asymptotic statistics, industrial statistics
Publications: Baisuo Jin, Cheng Wang, Baiqi Miao, Mon–Na Lo Huang, “Limiting Spectral Distribution of Large-Dimensional Sample Covariance Matrices Generated by VARMA,” Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2009,100, 2112–2125; Xiaoping Shi, Yuehua Wu, Baiqi Miao, “A Note of the Convergence Rate of the Kernel Density Estimate of the Mode,” Statistics and Probability Letters, 2009, 1866–1871; Wu, Tiee-jian, Shi, Xiaoping, Miao, Baiqi, “Asymptotic Approximation of Inverse Moments of nonnegative Random Variables,” Statistics and Probability Letters, 2009,79,1366-1371; Kang Ye, Shanshan Wang, Jiaqi Yan, Huaiqing Wang, Baiqi Miao, “Ontologies for Crisis Contagion Management in Financial Institutions.” Journal of Information Science, XX (X) 2009, pp. 1–18; Xiaoping Shi, Yuehua Wu, Baiqi Miao, “Strong Convergence Rate of Estimators of Change Point and its Application,” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2009, 53(4), 990–998; Ye Wuyi, Miao Baiqi, “Analysis of Financial Contagion Based on Change Point Testing of Archimedean Copula,” Journal of Chinese Statistical Association, 2008, 46, 181–196; Pan, Guangming, Miao, Baiqi, Jin, Baisuo, “Central Limit Theorem of Random Quadratics Forms Involving Random Matrices,” Statistics and Probability Letters, 2008; 78 (6), 804–809 75; Jun, Hui, Baiqi Miao, Jing Ning, Heng Pen, “Nonparametric Estimate for Contamination Distribution,” Applied Mathematics–A Journal of Chinese Universities, 2008, 23(2), 175-182; Bai, Z. D., Miao, B. Q. & Pan, G. M., “On Asymptotics of Eigenvectors of Large Sample Covariance Matrix” Annals of Probability, 2007, 35(4),1532-72; Lixing Zhu, Baiqi Miao, Heng Peng, “On Sliced Inverse Regression With High-Dimensional Covariates,” (pdf) JASA, 2006,101(474),630-643; Baiqi Miao, Yaohua Wu, Donghai Liu, Qian Tong, “Asymptotic Normality of the Recuisive M-estimators of the Scale Parameters,” AISM (2007) Vo.59, 367-384; Shi, X. P., Miao, B. Q., Ge, C. L., “Convergence of Parameter Estimators Change Point in the Symetric Stable Distribution,” Science Series A, 2008,38(2), 207–215.
Related Professional Activities: Research Grants 2005-2007, Natural Science Foundation, Grant No.10471135; 2001–2003; Natural Science Foundation, Grant No.10071082; 2001–2004; Department of Education, Grant No.20010358022; 2005–2007 Natural Science Foundation, Grant No.10471135; 2002–2005 Chinese Academy of Sciences, (group share)
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