Best Papers Chosen at JSM

Members of the Section on Nonparametric Statistics presented the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics Best Paper Award in 2009 and Student Paper Award during the Joint Statistical Meetings in August.

Erich L. Lehmann received the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics Best Paper Award in 2009 for his discussion paper, “Parametric versus Nonparametrics: Two Alternative Methodologies.” The award includes a prize of $771, which was given to the Erich L. Lehmann Foundation, as Lehmann passed away in November 2009. Juliet Shaffer, Lehmann’s widow, attended the award ceremony.

Award Committees

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics Best Paper Award
Yufeng Liu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Art Owen, Stanford University
Jane-Ling Wang, University of California, Davis
Suojin Wang, Texas A&M University

Student Paper Award
Lan Wang (chair), University of Minnesota
Arne Bathke, University of Kentucky
Yolanda Munoz Maldonado, Michigan Technological University
Jing Qin, National Institutes of Health
Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Rui Song, Colorado State University
Fang Yao, University of Toronto
Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The goal of the Student Paper Award is to foster research and encourage students to present their research results at the Joint Statistical Meetings. This year, six finalists were chosen based on the papers they submitted, and these papers were presented in a contributed session. Committee members rated the talks, and the final scores were based on the oral presentations and prior review score.

Kai Ding of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yeojin Chung of Penn State, and Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay of Texas A&M University were chosen as winners of the Student Paper Award. Yanling Hu of the University of Kentucky, Runlong Tang of the University of Michigan, and Xiaoru Wu of Columbia University were named honorable mentions.

The winners received $250 and a one-year membership in the Nonparametric Statistics Section; the honorable mentions received a certificate.