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place on Wednesdays of the Joint Statistical Meetings. The Presidents’ Award,
the Snedecor or Scott Award, and the David Award are announced first, and
are followed by the Fisher Lecture. All awards now include a plaque and a
cash honorarium of $1,000.
The George W. Snedecor and Elizabeth L. Scott Awards receive support
from an endowment fund. In the early days of these awards, financing was
in a precarious state. This led to a solicitation for funds in August 1995 that
raised $12,100. Subsequently a fiscal policy was established for the support of
awards.
This history of COPSS provides us with an opportunity to thank the following
donors for their assistance at that time: Abbott Laboratories ($500);
Biopharmaceutical Research Consultants ($100); Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical
Research Institute ($500); Chapman & Hall ($1,000); COPSS
($4,250); Duxbury Press ($500); Institute of Mathematical Statistics ($500);
Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
($500); Iowa State University ($750); Procter & Gamble ($500); Springer-
Verlag ($500); Section on Statistical Graphics ($500); SYSTAT ($500); Trilogy
Consulting Corporation ($500); John Wiley and Sons ($1,000).
1.4.1 Presidents’ Award
COPSS sponsors the Presidents’ Award and presents it to a young member of
the statistical community in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the
profession of statistics. The Presidents’ Award was established in 1976 and
is jointly sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, the Biometric Society ENAR, the Biometric Society
WNAR, and the Statistical Society of Canada operating through COPSS. (In
1994 the Biometric Society became the International Biometric Society.) The
first award was given in 1979, and it is presented annually.
According to the award description, “The recipient of the Presidents’
Award shall be a member of at least one of the participating societies. The
Presidents’ Award is granted to an individual who has not yet reached his or
her 40th birthday at the time of the award’s presentation. The candidate may
be chosen for a single contribution of extraordinary merit, or an outstanding
aggregate of contributions, to the profession of statistics.”
The Presidents’ Award Committee consists of seven members, including
one representative appointed by each of the five member societies plus the
COPSS Chair, and a past awardee as an additional member. The Chair of the
Award Committee is appointed by the Chair of COPSS.
Prior to 1988 the COPSS Presidents’ Award was funded by the ASA.
When the 1987 award depleted this account, COPSS voted to reallocate a
fraction of membership dues to fund future awards. Recipients are listed in
Table 1.3 with their affiliation at the time of the award.