- President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
The President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and, together with thePresident-Elect andPast President , sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.Duties
According to the "IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs" (2003), the President makes appointments to IMS committee vacancies, represents the Society to other organizations such as the
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and theConference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS). In addition, he or she is anex officio member of the corporation of theNational Institute for Statistical Sciences (NISS), and is responsible for appointing another member of the corporation and a member of the NISS Board of Trustees.List of presidents
20th Century
*1936
Henry L. Rietz
*1937Walter A. Shewhart
*1938Burton H. Camp
*1939Paul R. Rider
*1940Samuel S. Wilks
*1941Harold Hotelling
*1942-43Cecil C. Craig
*1944Walter A. Shewhart
*1945W. Edwards Deming
*1946William Gemmell Cochran
*1947William Feller
*1948Abraham Wald
*1949Jerzy Neyman
*1950Joseph Leo Doob
*1951Paul S. Dwyer
*1952Meyer A. Girshick
*1953Morris H. Hansen
*1954Edwin G. Olds
*1955Henry Scheffé
*1956David Blackwell
*1957Alexander Mood
*1958Leonard Jimmie Savage
*1959Jacob Wolfowitz
*1960John Tukey
*1961Erich L. Lehmann
*1962Albert H. Bowker
*1963Theodore W. Anderson
*1964Z. W. Birnbaum
*1965 Herbert Solomon
*1966Herbert Robbins
*1967 Ted Harris
*1968Herman Chernoff
*1969Wassily Hoeffding
*1970 Jack Kiefer
*1971William Kruskal
*1972Raj Chandra Bose
*1973Lucien Le Cam
*1974R. R. Bahadur
*1975Frederick Mosteller
*1976Donald L. Burkholder
*1977Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
*1978Elizabeth Scott
*1979Samuel Karlin
*1980George E. P. Box
*1981Peter J. Bickel
*1982Mark Kac
*1983Patrick Billingsley
*1984Ingram Olkin
*1985Oscar Kempthorne
*1986 Paul Meier
*1987Ronald Pyke
*1988Bradley Efron
*1989Ram Gnanadesikan
*1990Shanti S. Gupta
*1991David O. Siegmund
*1992Willem van Zwet
*1993 Larry Brown
*1994Stephen Stigler
*1995David R. Brillinger
*1996James O. Berger
*1997Nancy Reid
*1998Persi Diaconis
*1999Stephen Fienberg 21st Century
*2000
Morris Eaton
*2001Bernard Silverman
*2002 Iain Johnstone
*2003Raghu Varadhan
*2004Terry Speed
*2005Louis HY Chen
*2006Thomas G. Kurtz
*2007Jim Pitman
*2008Jianqing Fan
*2009J. Michael Steele ee also
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President of the American Statistical Association
*President of the Royal Statistical Society
*President of the Statistical Society of Canada External links
* [http://www.imstat.org/officials/past_officials.html Past Executive Committee Members]
References
* [http://www.imstat.org/handbook/handbook.pdf IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs]
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