Shlomo Sawilowsky

Shlomo S. Sawilowsky (born 1954) is Professor of Educational Statistics and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he has won many teaching and research awards. He was awarded the 1985 Florida Educational Research Association & 1986 American Educational Research Association State/Regions Distinguished Paper Award, titled "The Rank Transform", with co-author R. Clifford Blair. Sawilowsky's Ph.D. is from the University of South Florida (1985). He is the 2008 President of the American Educational Research Association SIG/Educational Statisticians.

Sawilowsky is the second most prolific "currently active" doctoral dissertation advisor (i.e., major professor) listed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project. With 83 doctoral dissertations, he is currently ranked 6th among 126,000+ doctoral level mathematicians and statisticians since the year 1475 C.E., which is approximately the beginning of the genealogy’s database. [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/php/extrema.php] Mathematics Genealogy Extrema Page. Notes: The listing includes 1st advisor and 2nd advisor.] He has also served as advisor for 21 Master's theses. Notable for this discipline, approximately half of his graduate students are female and one-fourth are African American.

Contributions to the statistical literature

Sawilowsky is the founder and editor of the "Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods", [ [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm] "Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods"] which is a peer-reviewed open access journal. It provides an outlet for (1) development of new statistical tests or procedures and the comparison of existing statistical tests or procedures using computer-intensive Monte Carlo simulation, bootstrap, jackknife, or resampling methods, (2) development of nonparametric, robust statistics, permutation statistics, exact, and approximate randomization methods, and (3) applications of computer programming related to statistical algorithms, pseudo-random number generators, simulation techniques, and self-contained executable code to carry out new or interesting statistical methods.

Sawilowsky is the author of an innovative introductory statistics textbook that presents statistical methods via Monte Carlo simulation methods, and the editor and contributor of two chapters of a book on the statistical analysis of real data as it applies to the social and behavioral sciences. [ [http://www.infoagepub.com/products/series/titles/978-1-59311-565-4.html] IAP-Information Age Publishing] He has also published over a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. The topics are on quantifying Type I error (false positive) rates of parametric statistics when their underlying assumptions have been violated; demonstration of the superior comparative statistical power properties of nonparametric rank statistics; and the development of new nonparametric, permutation, exact, and robust statistics. A common theme throughout his publications is the utility of Monte Carlo simulation methods for solving statistical problems, particularly for real, small (N < 50) data sets, which are intractable via mathematical methods. Sawilowsky also authored 17 entries in statistics encyclopedias, [ [http://www.sagepub.com/refbooksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book227214] "Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics" ] [ [http://www.wiley.com//legacy/wileychi/eosbs/] "Encyclopedia of Behavioral Statistics"] and is the co-author of a self-determination standardized assessment battery for a curriculum for children with and without disabilities. [ [http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productView.aspx?ID=3601] The "Self-determination Knowledge Scale" by Field, Hoffman, and Sawilowsky, published by ProEd, Inc., is one of five instruments in the assessment battery.] He has published extensively on applied problems in psychometrics (Classical test theory), experimental design, and program evaluation.

imultaneous career

After graduating from the Rabbinical College of America (1979), Sawilowsky was the emissary of the Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to Pinellas County, Florida. He also obtained a rabbinical degree from Yeshivas Pirchei Shoshanim [ [http://www.shemayisrael.com/smicha/] Pirchei Shoshanim] (2004) in Jerusalem, Israel, after having studied with the first group of students ever to receive strictly Orthodox Rabbinical ordination curricula on the laws of the Jewish Sabbath delivered via e-mail. [ [http://www.shemayisrael.com/smicha/alumni.htm] Shema Yisrael Torah Learning Network] [ [http://mishpacha.com/pdfrequest/1/14/16/] "Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly"]

Sawilowsky is the author of a comprehensive textbook written in an innovative dialogue format for preparing food and other matters related to the kitchen for the Sabbath. [Sawilowsky, Shlomo S. (2007). "Making the Shabbos kitchen". (With editorial assistance by Yechiel Conway.) Lakewood, NJ: Pirchei Shoshanim. ISBN 978-0-9740236-7-0] It is based on the Talmud, Code of Jewish Law (Shulchan Aruch), and Ashkenaz, Sephardi, and Chabad customs.

External links

* [http://www.amstat.org/sections/educ/award.html Wayne State University Graduate Mentor Award & College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award]
* [http://www.otl.wayne.edu/pdf/aw-pe.pdf Wayne State University Excellence In Teaching Award]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=85370 Listing in The Mathematics Genealogy Project]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_ordination_speech.mpeg Ordination Valedictorian Dinner Speech in Jerusalem, 2004 (82 mb)]
* [http://www.shemayisrael.com/smicha/alumni.htm Testimonial Regarding Receiving Orthodox Rabbinical Ordination via E-mail Curriculum]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_mishpacha.pdf Cover of "Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly", Issue 14]

ampling of publications

*Sawilowsky, Shlomo S.; Fahoome, Gail C. (2003). "Statistics via Monte Carlo Simulation with Fortran". Rochester Hills, MI: JMASM. ISBN 0-9740236-0-4
*Sawilowsky, Shlomo S. (Ed.). (2007). "Real Data Analysis: A Volume in Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral Sciences: Issues, Research, and Teaching. American Educational Research Association SIG Educational Statisticians". Charlotte, NC: IAP-Information Age Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59311-565-4.
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_future.pdf Alternative Future for Educational Research]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_random_assignment.pdf Teaching Random Assignment]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_hypothesis_testing.pdf Deconstructing the Case Against Hypothesis Testing]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_effect_size_debate.pdf Debate on Reporting Non-Significant Statistical Effect Sizes]
* [http://content2.apa.org/journals/bul/111/2/352 Properties of the t-Test]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_misconceptions.pdf Misconceptions In Choosing the t-Test over the Wilcoxon Rank Sum / Mann-Whitney U test]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=8310192&dopt=Citation Modified t-Test]
* [http://content2.apa.org/journals/met/3/1/55 Analysis of Likert scale data]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_behrens_fisher.pdf On the Behrens-Fisher Problem]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6543(199021)60%3A1%3C91%3ANTOIIE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J Nonparametric tests of interaction in Experimental Design]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0362-9791(198923)14%3A3%3C255%3AAIOTTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q Properties of the Rank Transform in Factorial Analysis of Variance]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_lre.pdf A Measure of Location Relative Efficiency]
* [http://epm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/60/2/157 Psychometrics vs. Datametrics]
* [http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/sawilowsky_cliff_blair.pdf Conversations with Prof. R. Clifford Blair]
*Sawilowsky, Shlomo S. (2007). "Making the Shabbos kitchen". With editorial assistance by Yechiel Conway. Lakewood, NJ: Pirchei Shoshanim. ISBN 978-0-9740236-7-0

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