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Awards and Recognition
Deming Lecturer Award
Established to honor the accomplishments of W. Edwards Deming, this award recognizes the accomplishments of the awardee and enhances the awareness among the statistical community of the scope and importance of Deming's contributions.
Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award
The Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award was established to recognize members of the media for their presentation of the science of statistics and its role in public life.
Fellows of the ASA
Nominated by their peers, ASA Fellows are members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work. Given annually, this is a great honor, as the number of recipients is limited to no more than one-third of 1% of the ASA membership.
Founders Award
The ASA Founders Award recognizes members who have rendered distinguished service to the association.
Gottfried E. Noether Awards
The Noether awards were established to recognize distinguished researchers and teachers and to support the field of nonparametric statistics. The Noether Senior Scholar Award is presented to a distinguished senior researcher or teacher in nonparametric statistics. The Noether Young Scholar Award is presented to an accomplished young researcher to promote research and teaching in nonparametric statistics.
Outstanding Statistical Application Award
This award recognizes a paper that is an outstanding application of statistics in any substantive field.
Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award
The Wilks award, one of the ASA's most prestigious, was established to honor the memory and distinguished career of Samuel S. Wilks by recognizing outstanding contributions to statistics that carry on in the spirit of his work.
SPAIG Award
The SPAIG Award was established to recognize outstanding partnerships established between academe, business, industry, and government and to promote new partnerships. This award differs from other ASA awards in that it recognizes organizations, rather than individuals.
Statistics in Chemistry Award
The Statistics in Chemistry Award recognizes outstanding collaborative efforts between statisticians and chemists. While this is a Section award, in 1995, the Board of Directors grandfathered this award for presentation at the ASA Presidential Address Session.
Waller Education Award
The Waller Education Award was established by a contribution from retired ASA Executive Director Ray Waller and his wife Carolyn to honor individuals for innovation in the instruction of elementary statistics.
W. J. Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting
In December of 2008, the ASA Board of Directors accepted a gift from Janet Elashoff, daughter of W. J. Dixon, to endow a fund establishing the W. J. Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting. The award was established to recognize outstanding contributions to statistical consulting and to honor the memory of Dixon.
W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing
The W. J. Youden award was established to recognize publications that make outstanding contributions to the design and/or analysis of interlaboratory tests or describe ingenious approaches to the planning and evaluation of data from such tests.