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| 2008 Honor a Statistician Award |
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The Connecticut Chapter of the American Statistical Association will hold a banquet on Thursday, July 10th, to present the Honor a Statistician Award to Dr. David Salsburg.
The chapter presents this award each year to a chapter member who made a contribution to the statistics profession and supported chapter activities.
The banquet will be held at the Sally Hart Lodge on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford .
There will be a mixer at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 . At 7:30 Dr. Salsburg will present a talk (abstract below).
The cost of the dinner is $30 ($10 for students).
Please RSVP with payment by Thursday, July 3. We need to have an accurate count of those who will be attending, so
reservations cannot be accepted without full payment. Make checks
payable to ASA CT Chapter.
Send payment to:
Sterling Hardy
Bristol-Myers Squibb
5 Research Parkway
Wallingford, CT 06492
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Award Recipients
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2008 |
David Salsburg |
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2007 |
Heping Zhang |
| 2006 |
Fred Djang |
| 2005 |
Tim Keyes |
| 2004 |
Uwe Koehn |
| 2003 |
Naitee Ting |
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| Do Vaccines Cause Autism? Does Breathing Cause Death? Defining Cause and Effect in an Observational Study |
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The concept of "cause and effect" has posed deep philosophical discussions with positions ranging from Aristotle's insistence
that a phenomenon is not understood until one can identify its cause to Bertram Russell's claim that the concept of cause and
effect has no meaning. The ultimate purpose of most epidemiological studies is to identify "causes" of illness. What does this
mean when dealing with observational data rather than data from a designed randomized study? Using references from Aristotle,
Keynes, Russell, Fisher, Cochran, and Cornfield, among others, this is a discussion of how statistical models have been used to answer these questions. |
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| Short biography of David Salsburg |
| David Salsburg has a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics (U. of Conn., 1967).
He taught at Trinity College and the University of Pennsylvania before going to Pfizer Central Research, Pfizer, Inc.,
where he was the first biostatistician at that company. He worked at Pfizer for 27, rising to the senior position on
the scientific ladder before retiring in 1995. While at Pfizer and since retirement, he taught courses at the
University of Connecticut, Connecticut College, and Harvard School of Public Health, and Yale. He is a fellow of the
American Statistical Association and received a lifetime achievement award from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
Association. He has published papers dealing with theoretical statistics, toxicology, pharmacology, clinical research,
textual analysis, quality control, and legal problems. He is the author of three academic books, in addition to
"The Lady Tasting Tea." |
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