STUDENT PAPER AWARD

2009 Competition Announcement
Announcement of Winners for 2009
Previous Awardees

2009 Competition Announcement

Entries are invited for the Student Paper Competition of the Risk Analysis Section of ASA.

Each year the Section on Risk Analysis offers at least one student travel award in the amount of $800 to defray costs for attendance and presentation of their work at the Joint Statistical Meetings to be held in August. This competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students, full or part-time, attending an accredited academic program. Your work may be the development of new methodology in risk analysis or the application of existing risk methods in a novel way. The contribution may be a theoretical development, or it may cover any of the numerous applications of risk analysis, including environmental risk, financial risk, risk to engineering structures, health risks, risks to defense and national security, etc.

To enter this competition, you must submit a manuscript by the closing date for the competition. The manuscript may be a paper already submitted for publication, or it may be a draft representing work in progress. There are no requirements concerning the minimum or maximum length of the manuscript, but conciseness is encouraged. In addition, we require a letter from the advisor, certifying (a) that the student is registered as a student during the Spring of 2009, (b) that the student is primarily responsible for the work contained in the paper. Joint papers are acceptable but in this case the student should be the first-named author and the advisor's letter should make clear the student's contribution relative to other co-authors.

Entrants will be judged based on relevance and interest of the subject matter, the quality of writing, and of course the quality of the research itself.

Entries should be sent to Richard Smith, chair of the Risk Analysis Section Student Paper Award Committee, by email to rls@email.unc.edu, to arrive by January 10, 2009. Please include the words "Student Paper Award" in the subject line of your email. The manuscript and supporting materials should be included as PDF documents attached to the email. The result will be announced no later than January 31. The winner(s) will be required to submit their abstract to the JSM, for which the deadline is February 2, 2009.

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Announcement of Winners for 2009

First prize ($1000 and plaque) to Ya-Hsiu Chuang of the University of Pittsburgh for the paper:

	Bayesian model averaging approach in health effect studies: Sensitivity analyses using PM10 and cardiopulmonary hospital admission in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, and simulated data, by Ya-Hsiu Chuang and Sati Mazumdar, University of Pittsburgh.

Runner-up ($500 and plaque) to Tim van Erven of Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for the paper:
	Catching up faster by switching sooner: A prequential solution to the AIC-BIC dilemma, by Tim van Erven, Peter Gruenwald and Steven de Rooij, CWI, Amsterdam.

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Previous Awardees

2005

Afisi Segun Ismaila, McMaster University
Comparison of Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches in Modeling Risk of Preterm Birth Near the Sydney Tar Ponds, Nova Scotia, Canada (with Angelo Canty and Lehana Thabane)

Chengyong Tang, Iowa State University
Inference of Value at Risk for Dependent Financial Returns (with Song Xi Chen and Chengyong Tang)

2003

M. Brent McHenry, University of Pittsburgh
A Modified Estimator for the Cumulative Covariate Effect in Aalen's Additive Risk Model

1999

Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, University of Minnesota
Statistical Analysis of Salmonellosis Outbreak Data