The King Baudouin Foundation has awarded the prize, worth $1 million, to James Robins, Miguel Hernán, Thomas Richardson, Andrea Rotnitzky, and Eric Tchetgen for their pioneering work on causal inference with applications in medicine and public health.
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Michael Hudgens and Rajan Patel Honored
Michael Hudgens was honored as the winner of the 2019 Kutner Alumni Award and Rajan Patel was honored as the winner of the 2021 Kutner Alumni Award.
University of Michigan Graduate Joins ASA Staff as Science Policy Fellow
Edward Wu started as the ASA science policy fellow in September, becoming the fourth person to hold the position.
August Potpourri: Agent-Based Models, Tournaments, Statistical Ethics
The August 2021 issue of The American Statistician is available online and features 13 articles across different sections of the journal. One of the benefits of ASA membership is free access to online issues of TAS.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Ogburn
At a young age, Elizabeth Ogburn’s plan was to stay in school forever. In college, she studied philosophy and math and tried everything from epidemiology to data analysis, but nothing stuck. She wasn’t sure what she wanted to do until she attended a talk about causal inference and knew that was the perfect fit. Now, as a Johns Hopkins faculty member, she loves being part of the broader causal inference community, with its connections to social science, computer science, theoretical and applied statistics, and, of course, public health.
Editors of Online Journal Statistics and Public Policy Seek Papers
The ASA journal Statistics and Public Policy publishes peer-reviewed articles describing research on outstanding, complex public policy issues.
Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl is a Turing Award Winner, and author of “The Book of Why,” which has been described as the democratization of causal inference.
Biometrics Section News for May 2018
The Biometrics Section will sponsor seven continuing education courses at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver. Two are highlighted here.
An Interview with COPSS Award Winner VanderWeele
Tyler J. VanderWeele, recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award, talks about mentors, causal inference, and how ideas in philosophy and theology might inform empirical statistical research in the social and biomedical sciences.
NIH-Funded Short Course Planned on Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research
The University of Alabama will host an NIH-funded short course, titled “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research,” at the University of Alabama at Birmingham July 24–28.