Savage awards

[Guido Consonni <gconsonni@eco.unipv.it>]

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1998 and 1999 Savage Award Competitions

    THE WINNER OF THE 1998  SAVAGE AWARD COMPETITION IS:  
          DR.  ANTONIETTA MIRA,  U. OF INSURBIA.

   Her thesis, "Ordering , Splicing and Splitting Monte Carlo Markov
Chains" was completed at the
U. of Minnesota under the direction of Professor Luke Tierney.  She was
given an award of $750
in recognition of her outstanding research.
    
     HONORABLE MENTION IN THE 1998 SAVAGE AWARD COMPETITION WAS GIVEN TO:
          DR.  JAELONG LEE,  NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE

   His thesis, "Semiparametric Bayesian Analysis: Selection Models and
Meteorological Applications,"
was completed at Purdue U. under the direction of Professor James O.
Berger.  He was given an award of $100 in recognition of his excellent thesis.
  
  Drs. Mira and Lee reported their research at the Savage Award Session of
the Joint Statistical Meetings,
August, 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland arranged and chaired by Prof. Ehsan
Soofi. Members of the Savage Thesis Evaluation Committee who evaluated the
many theses submitted for the 1998 Savage Thesis Award competition are:
Professors Ehsan Soofi, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Chair, Sid Chib,
Washingon U., Michael Evans, U. of Toronto, Tom Leonard, U. of Edinburgh,
Peter Rossi, U. of Chicago, and Robert Weiss, UCLA. 

   As regards the 1999 Savage Thesis Award Competition, members of the
Board of the Professor Leonard
J. Savage Memorial Fund, Inc., Professors  Stephen Fienberg,
Carnegie-Mellon U., Seymour Geisser, U. of
Minnesota,  Joseph Kadane, Carnegie-Mellon U., Edward Leamer, UCLA, John
Pratt, Harvrard U., and 
Arnold Zellner, Pres., U. of Chicago, have decided to institute two Savage
Thesis Awards of $750  for the 1999 competition, one for a "mainly
theoretical" thesis and the other for a "mainly empirical" thesis.  Thesis
supervisors are requested to submit two (2) copies of a student's thesis, a
short summary of the thesis's main findings and a designation of it,
"theoretical" or "empirical"  before November 15, 1999 to: Prof. Arnold
Zellner, Graduate School of Business,  U. of Chicago, 1101 E. 58th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
The winners of the 1999 competition will be announced at a social function
after the Savage Award Session of the Joint Statistical Meetings, August,
2000.
    
    Sponsorship and financial support for the annual Savage Thesis Award
competitions are provided by
the Professor Leonard J. Savage Memorial Fund, Inc., the NBER-NSF Seminar
on Bayesian Econometrics 
and Statistics, the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American
Statistical Association (www. amstat.org) and the International Society for
Bayesian Analysis (www.bayesian.org) 
 



Arnold Zellner
H.G.B. Alexander Dist. Service Prof. Emeritus of Economics
   and Statistics
1101 E. 58 St., Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773-702-7145  Fax: 773-702-0458
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/arnold.zellner/index.html





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Guido Consonni
Universita' di Pavia
Dipartimento di Economia Poltica e Metodi Quantitativi
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