Joseph Hilbe

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name = Joseph Hilbe

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caption = Joseph Hilbe
birth_date = Birth date and age|1944|12|30|mf=y
birth_place = Los Angeles, California, United States
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field = statistician, mathematician, and philosopher
work_institution = University of Hawaii
Arizona State University
known_for = generalized linear models
negative binomial regression
prizes = Fellow, American Statistical Association
Elected Member and Chair, Sports Statistics Committee, International Statistical Institute

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Joseph Michael Hilbe FRSS (born 30 December 1944) is a US statistician and philosopher, a two-time national champion track & field athlete [http://www.usatf.org/statistics/champions/USAOutdoorTF/ USATF - Statistics - USA Outdoor Track & Field Champions ] ] , and Olympic Games official.

Hilbe is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, an adjunct professor of statistics at Arizona State University (since 1992), and a Solar System Ambassador with NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory [http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/profiles/Joseph_Hilbe.htm The Solar System Ambassadors Program ] ] . He is an elected Fellow of both the American Statistical Association [http://www.amstat.org/fellows/index.cfm?fuseaction=fellowslist] and Royal Statistical Society, as well as an elected member of the prestigious International Statistical Institute [ [http://isi.cbs.nl/ International Statistical Institute Home Page ] ] , for which he is Chair of the Sports Statistics Committee [http://isi.cbs.nl/committees.htm] . In addition, he is also a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and "Bernoulli Society".

Hilbe is noted for his work with generalized linear models (GLM), and in particular for his contributions to the field of count response modeling. He is author of "Negative Binomial Regression" (Cambridge University Press, 2007), [ [http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521857727 Negative Binomial Regression - Cambridge University Press ] ] and co-author with James Hardin (University of South Carolina) of "Generalized Estimating Equations" (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2003), and two editions of "Generalized Linear Models and Extensions", (Stata Press, 2001, 2007). Since the early 1990's Hilbe has presented short courses on topics related to his publications throughout North America [http://ags.bwh.harvard.edu/ags_agenda_2007_final_0518071.doc] and Europe [ [http://www.stata.com/meeting/4italian/ Meetings: 4th Italian Users Group meeting ] ] .

Over two decades Hilbe has created a number of published statistical software regression procedures used by researchers worldwide with which to model data. Since 1997, he has also served as Software Reviews Editor for The American Statistician [ [http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/index.cfm?fuseaction=board The American Statistician ] ] , significantly contributing to the development of accurate and useful commercial statistical software.

Life and Works

Born in Los Angeles, California, 30 Dec 1944, son of Rader John Hilbe and Nadyne Anderson Hilbe, Hilbe graduated from Paradise, CA high school (1962) and California State University, Chico (1968) with a degree in philosophy. He studied for his doctorate in philosophy at U.C.L.A. where he was a graduate reader for Nobel Laureate Fredrick von Hayek and personal assistant to Rudolf Carnap, one of the founders of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivism.

Hilbe secured a position at the University of Hawaii, where he retired as an emeritus professor of philosophy in 1990. During this time he authored a number of texts dealing with a variety of philosophical disciplines, but was mostly concerned with the epistemological concerns of knowledge and reasoning. In 1988 he earned a doctorate in statistics (applied mathematics, U.C.L.A.) and was hired by the HCFA to develop statistical and data management tools for the study of Medicare data in 1990. Hilbe served as the founding editor of the "Stata Technical Bulletin" (predecessor to the The Stata Journal) from 1991 to 1993, [ [http://www.statajournal.com/sjfaq.html The Stata Journal FAQ ] ] for which he developed a variety of statistical software algorithms, including the first generalized linear models program having a negative binomial regression family. He is widely regarded as having popularized negative binomial regression, which is now a well used statistical method for modeling count response data. His 2007 text, "Negative Binomial Regression", is the first to specifically address the model and its many variations and enhancements. Hilbe is also credited as having derived a new parameterization of the censored "Poisson" and censored "negative binomial", allowing for count survival models [ [http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s456508.html CENSORNB: Stata module to estimate censored negative binomial regression as survival model ] ] , and showed how the negative binomial model can derived directly from the exponential family form of the negative binomial probability distribution, and not, as traditionally conceived, as a Poisson-gamma mixture model. The basic form of this parameterization was termed by Hilbe the "canonical negative binomial", or "NB-C".

In 1992 Hilbe was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Statistics in the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. In 2007 he changed departmental affiliations and is currently associated with the School of Social and Family Dynamics [ [http://www.asu.edu/clas/ssfd/people/adjunct.html SSFD | People ] ] and the Department of Nutrition. Hilbe is also an instructor with "www.statistics.com", the leading web-based continuing education resource for practicing statisticians and researchers [ [http://www.statistics.com/courses/faculty.php statistics.com: Faculty ] ] .

Aside from statistics, Hilbe has served on the Board of Directors of the "Center for Naturalism" [ [http://www.naturalism.org/center_for_naturalism.htm Center for Naturalism ] ] since 2004 and is a member of the Planetary Society. Hilbe's long term interest in astronomy and meteorites led to his selection in 2007 as a Solar System Ambassador with NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.

A list of books and book chapters authored by Hilbe is listed below.

Athletics

Known as "Joe Hilbe" when involved with athletics, Hilbe won the National AAU Pentathlon Championships in 1968 and 1978. He was also listed in the Track & Field News World List rankings in the 100 yards (9.4, 1967) and 400 meters (45.9, 1965). Hilbe served as National Chair for AAU Girl's Junior Olympic Track & Field from 1979-1982, and was Head Women's Track & Field coach at the University of Hawaii from 1979-1985. His foremost athletes were Gwen Loud, 1984 NCAA Division 1 Long Jump Champion (6.72/22'5 3/4") and a member of the U.S. team to the first International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Helsinki, 1983, and Gwen Gardner, second at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials 400 meters, earning a berth on the Olympic team that boycotted the Moscow Olympic Games. As assistant men's coach at the
University of Hawaii (1973-1977), Hilbe coached Terry Albritton, who broke the Shot Put world record (21.85/71'8 1/2") in 1976, and won numerous AAU and NCAA titles. Hilbe was selected to serve as a U.S. team coach and manager during the 1980s for several major competitions in the U.S, Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand.

Hilbe was a member of the founding committee that formed the National Track & Field Officials Association in 1977. He was a lead competition official and IAAF technical adviser at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and was hired by Turner Broadcasting System to serve as Athletics Broadcast Coordinator for the 1990 Goodwill Games held in Seattle, WA. Hilbe is also a 2007 inductee into the "Chico State Athletic Hall of Fame" [ [http://www.csuchico.edu/athletics/hof/2007hof.html 2007 Hall of Fame Inductees ] ] .

Publications: Books and Book Chapters

* Hilbe, Joseph M., "Negative Binomial Regression", Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2007) [ [http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521857727 Negative Binomial Regression - Cambridge University Press ] ]
* Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe, "Generalized Linear Models and Extensions", Second Edition, College Station, TX: Stata Press (2007) [ [http://www.stata-press.com/books/glmext.html Generalized Linear Models and Extensions, 2nd Edition ] ]
* Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe, "Generalized Estimating Equations", London,UK: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (2003) [ [http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=C3073&af=W1129 CRC Press Online ] ]
* Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe, "Generalized Linear Models and Extensions", College Station, TX: Stata Press (2001)
* Hilbe, Joseph, "Sentential Logic", Educational Services Pub. Co. (1983)
* Hilbe, Joseph M., "Fundamentals of Conceptual Analysis",Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt (1977)
* Hilbe, Joseph, "Philosophical Foundations of Law", Educational Services Pub. Co. (1973)
* Hilbe, J.M., "Experiencing Philosophy", Educational Services Pub. Co. (1970)
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* Hilbe,J.M. and J.W. Hardin, "Generalized Estimating Equations for Longitudinal Panel Analysis" in S. Menard (Editor), "Handbook of Longitudinal Research: Design, Measurement, and Analysis across the Social Sciences", London, UK: Academic Press/Elsevier (2007).
* Hilbe, Joseph and William Greene, "Count Response Regression Models", in C.R. Rao, J.P. Miller, and D.C.Rao (Editors), "Handbook of Statistics, Vol 27: Epidemiology and Medical Statistics", London, UK: North Holland/Elsevier (2007).
* Holmes, J.D., J. Rohn, and J. Hilbe, "Informatics and Software Applications for Data Analyses" in Van Beneden, C. and N. Mikanatha, (editors), "Infectious Disease Surveillance", London: Blackwell (2007).
* Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe (2007). "Generalized Estimating Equations" in "Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials", New York: Wiley & Son Pub.
* Hilbe, Joseph M., "The Coevolution of Statistics and Hz." In S. Sawilowsky (ed.),"Real Data Analysis", American Educational Research Association, SIG/Educational Statisticians: Information Age Publishing (2006).
* Hamilton, L. and J. Hilbe "Statistical Analysis Using Stata", in R. Stine & J. Fox (Editors), "Statistical Computing Environments for Social Research", Sage Publishing Co. (1997).
* Hilbe, J. and B. Turlach, "Generalized Linear Models", in W. Haerdle, S. Klinke, B Turlach (Editors), "XploRe: An interactive Statistical Computing Environment", Springer-Verlag (1995).

See also

*Stata
*Statistics
*The American Statistician
*American Statistical Association
*Royal Statistical Society
*International Statistical Institute
*Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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