ABSTRACT

Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science was commissioned in 2013 by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to celebrate its 50th anniversary and the International Year of Statistics. COPSS consists of five charter member statistical societies in North America and is best known for sponsoring prestigious awards in stat

part 1|2 pages

Part I: The history of COPSS

part 2|2 pages

Part II: Reminiscences and personal reflections on career paths

chapter 3|12 pages

A career in statistics

chapter 6|14 pages

Statistics before and after my COPSS Prize

chapter 7|10 pages

The accidental biostatistics professor

chapter 8|14 pages

Developing a passion for statistics

chapter 10|8 pages

Science mixes it up with statistics

chapter 11|12 pages

Lessons from a twisted career path

chapter 12|10 pages

Promoting equity

part 3|2 pages

Part III: Perspectives on the field and profession

chapter 14|4 pages

Where are the majors?

chapter 15|14 pages

We live in exciting times

chapter 16|6 pages

The bright future of applied statistics

chapter 20|12 pages

“The whole women thing”

chapter 21|6 pages

Reflections on diversity

part 4|2 pages

Part IV: Reflections on the discipline

chapter 22|16 pages

Why does statistics have two theories?

chapter 23|14 pages

Conditioning is the issue

chapter 25|12 pages

Nonparametric Bayes

chapter 30|14 pages

Lessons in biostatistics

chapter 31|10 pages

A vignette of discovery

chapter 32|10 pages

Statistics and public health research

chapter 36|8 pages

Buried treasures

chapter 39|14 pages

A journey with statistical genetics

chapter 40|16 pages

Targeted learning: From MLE to TMLE

chapter 42|10 pages

In praise of sparsity and convexity

chapter 44|12 pages

Rise of the machines

part 5|2 pages

Part V: Advice for the next generation