Pankaj Choudhary, University of Texas at Dallas; Chaitra Nagaraja, Fordham University; and Tony Ng, Southern Methodist University
Ordered Data Analysis, Models, and Health Research Methods: An International Conference in Honor of H.N. Nagaraja for His 60th Birthday was held at the University of Texas at Dallas March 7–9. The conference was, in essence, a celebration of statistics.
Nagaraja began his academic career in the department of statistics at The Ohio State University in 1980 and is now the biostatistics division chair in the college of public health there. He has made distinguished contributions in areas such as order statistics, stochastic modeling, distribution theory, characterizations, asymptotics, and statistical methods in the health sciences. He is a fellow of both the American Statistical Association and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The conference featured three plenary talks: “Ordering Order Statistics” by N. Balakrishnan of McMaster University; “Data, Design, and Analysis for Comparative Effectiveness Research Decisions” by Sally C. Morton of the University of Pittsburgh; and “Variations on Some Exponential Characterization Themes” by Barry Arnold of the University of California at Riverside.
Nearly 200 participants from 14 countries representing academia, industry, and government attended. There were 46 sessions, more than 120 talks, 11 posters, and a SAS JMP workshop. Many students and young statisticians, including the 11 winners of travel awards sponsored by The Ohio State University, were involved.
For more information, visit the conference website.
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