Lawrence H. Cox
Alan Karr, director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), recently announced Lawrence H. Cox’s appointment as Assistant Director for Official Statistics at NISS. Karr said, “Larry Cox is a distinguished statistician who will help NISS in many ways, especially on research conducted in partnership with the federal statistical agencies.”
In his new position, Cox will serve as convener of the survey cluster for the NISS affiliates program, expanding the NISS presence in data confidentiality research and furthering plans to develop a microsimulation model for surveys. He also will help deepen the scientific connections between NISS and its sister institute, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute.
Prior to joining NISS, Cox was Associate Director for Research and Methodology at the National Center for Health Statistics. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Brown University.
David B. Dunson
David B. Dunson, professor of statistical science at Duke University, was recently named the 2010 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer. Dunson will present a lecture titled “Building Crystal Balls: Learning from Pictures, Curves, and Needles in Haystacks” on September 23 at the Harvard School of Public Health. A reception will follow.
Each year, the lectureship is awarded to a promising statistician who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodological research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine and/or has shown excellence in the teaching of biostatistics.
For more information, email Artemis Moore at aemoore@hsph.harvard.edu.
Dale Jorgenson
Dale W. Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, was recently selected to receive the 2010 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics. The award recognizes unusually original and important contributions to the development of economic statistics or the use of statistics in interpreting the economy. Jorgenson is being recognized for his leadership in the integration of the U.S. National Accounts and contributions to the measurement of productivity, innovation, capital, human capital, and poverty.
Jorgenson served as president of the American Economic Association in 2000 and was named a distinguished fellow in 2001. He was a founding member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council in 1991 and served as chair of the board from 1998 to 2006. He also served as chair of Section 54, Economic Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2003 and on the Secretary of Commerce’s 2008 Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy. He currently serves as chair of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Advisory Committee.
Jorgenson has conducted groundbreaking research on information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics. He is the author of 246 articles about economics and the author and editor of 32 books. His collected papers have been published in 10 volumes by The MIT Press.
Jorgenson’s work has had a significant effect on international statistics and provided contributions to the multifactor productivity estimates produced by the European Union. His research on the concept of the cost of capital was also a major influence on the new chapter on capital services in the System of National Accounts 2008.
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