Category: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

The winner of the 2015 Karl Pearson Prize is the paper “Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models” by Kung-Yee Liang and Scott Zeger published in Biometrika (1986). The authors will present the Pearson Lecture at the WSC in Rio de Janeiro in July 2015.

The inaugural Karl Pearson Prize is awarded to Peter McCullagh and John Nelder¹ for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983). The ISI’s Karl Pearson Prize was established in 2013 to recognize a contemporary a research contribution that has had profound influence on statistical theory, methodology, practice, or applications. The contribution can be a research article or a book and must be published within the last three decades.

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