Announcements
History of the Allen T. Craig Lectures
at The University of Iowa
Early in the 1969-70 academic year, Professor Allen T. Craig announced his retirement. He gave a retirement talk in January 1970. During the 1970 summer, the department decided to establish a lecture series to honor Professor Craig. His January 1970 talk was the first in this series. The second Craig Lecturer was Frederick Mosteller, who delivered the lecture in May 1971. The subsequent Craig Lectures were usually held in April, and annual student awards were usually given at this time.
Lecture #1 - 1970
Allen T. Craig
Lecture #2 - 1971
Frederick Mosteller, Harvard University, "Statistics in Society"
Lecture #3 - 1972
William Kruskal, University of Chicago, "Federal Statistics: People and Problems" and "Statistics: Public Policy and Private Understanding"
Lecture #4 - 1973
H.D. Brunk, Oregon State University, "Bayesian Inference: Some Introductory Illustrations" and "Some Bayesian Approaches to Nonparametric Estimation"
Lecture #5 - 1974
Jack Kiefer, Cornell University, "Foundations of Statistics: Are There Any?" and "How to Find an Optimum Design"
Lecture #6 - 1975
Dennis V. Lindley, University College, London, "Getting Married and Related Problems" and "Analysis of Variance"
Lecture #7 - 1976
Brad Efron, Stanford University, "How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?" and "Regression and ANOVA with 0-1 Data"
Lecture #8 - 1977
Frank Proschan, Florida State University, "A Class of Multivariate Functions in Ranking Problems" and "A Case History: Explaining an Observed Decreasing Failure Rate"
Lecture #9 - 1978
J.L. Doob, University of Illinois, "A Discrete Boundary Value Problem" and "A General First Boundary Value Problem for Laplace's Equation"
Lecture #10 - 1979
Robert V. Hogg, University of Iowa, "On Statistics at Iowa: Before 1950" and "On Statistics at Iowa: After 1950"
Lecture #11 - 1980
James C. Hickman, University of Wisconsin, "The Great Rates of Retirement Planning -- Wages, Interest and Population" and "Bayesian Bivariate Graduation and Forecasting"
Lecture #12 - 1981
David J. Bartholomew, London School of Economics and Political Science" and "Latent Variable Models in Statistics"
Lecture #13 - 1982
Colin L. Mallows, Bell Telephone Laboratories, "Robust Methods -- Applications and Basic Concepts" and "Robust Methods -- Theory"
Lecture #14 - 1983
J. Stuart Hunter, Princeton University, "Theory Sigma: Quality Through Statistical Methods" and "Fractional Factorials: Sequential and Prior Analysis"
Lecture #15 - 1984
Wayne Fuller, Iowa State University, "Measurement Error in Regression" and "Nonlinear Measurement Error Models"
Lecture #16 - 1985
George E.P. Box, University of Wisconsin, "Analyzing Fractional Designs" and "Thoughts on Some Ideas of Genichi Taguchi"
Lecture #17 - 1986
Steve Stigler, University of Wisconsin, "John Craig and the Probability of History" and "The History of Statistics in the Social Science: Recovering from the Central Limit Disaster"
Lecture #18 - 1987
Carl Morris, University of Texas, "Parametric Empirical Bayes: An Overview" and "Bayesian Empirical Bayes Interval Estimation: A Review of Recent Progress"
Lecture #19 - 1988
Tom Ferguson, University of California-Berkeley, "Who Solved the Secretary Problem?" and "Some Time-Invariant Stopping Rule Problems"
Lecture #20 - 1989
Ron Pyke, University of Washington, "The Bell-Shaped Curve: A Central Role for Probability in Statistics" and "Set-Indexed Empirical, Quantile and Rank Processes"
Lecture #21 - 1990
Thomas P. Hettmansperger, Pennsylvania State University, "Simple Sign Based Inference in the Location Model" and "Rank Based Inference in the Linear Model"
Lecture #22 - 1991
T.W. Anderson, Stanford University, "R.A. Fisher and Multivariate Analysis" and "Goodness-of-fit Tests for Spectral Distributions"
Lecture #23 - 1992
Herbert Robbins, Columbia University, "Big N, Little n: Minimizing the Ethical Cost of a Clinical Trial" and "Estimation Under Biased Allocation"
Lecture #24 - 1993
Herman Chernoff, Harvard University, "An Application of a Result of Elfving on the Optimal Design of Regression Experiments" and "The Distribution of the Likelihood-Ratio for Mixtures of Distributions with Application to Genetics"
Lecture #25 - 1994
Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago, "The Role of Models in Statistics" and "Some Remarks on Over-Dispersion"
Lecture #26 - 1995
F.T. (Tim) Wright, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Harnessing Chance" and "Pseudo Likelihood Inferences for Ordered Survival Curves Under the Assumption of Proportional Hazards"
Lecture #27 - 1996
Trevor Hastie, Stanford University, "Flexible Discriminant and Mixture Models" and "Metrics and Models for Handwritten Digit Recognition"
Lecture #28 - 1997
John A. Hartigan, Yale University, "The Effect of Proposition 48 on Graduation Rates of American Athletes" and "The Maximum Likelihood Prior"
Lecture #29 - 1998
Ulf Grenander, Brown University, "Computational Anatomy" and "A Bayesian Approach to Vision"
Lecture #30 - 1999
Howell Tong, London School of Economics and University of Hong Kong, "Chaos in Statistics" and "Some Recent Non-Parametric Tools in Nonlinear Time Series"
Lecture #31 - 2000
Hans Gerber, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), "Trees R Us: From Kronecker and Esscher to Black and Scholes" and "Pricing Perpetual Options for Jump Processes: From Risk Theory to Finance"
Lecture #32 - 2001
Luke Tierney, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, "Some Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Inference" and "Some Issues in the Design of R"
Lecture #33 - 2003
Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington, "Linkage Detection for Complex Traits" and "Monte Carlo Estimation of Likelihood Functions: The Example of Multipoint Linkage Lod Scores"
Lecture #34 - 2004
Jim Berger, Duke University, "Objective Bayesian Analysis: Its Uses in Practice and Its Role in the Unification of Statistics" and "Validation of Computer Models"
Lecture #35 - 2005
Jay Kadane, Carnegie Mellon University, "Driving While Black: Differential Enforcement of the Traffic Laws on the New Jersey Turnpike" and "Is Ignorance Bliss?"
Lecture #36 - 2006
Alan Agresti, University of Florida
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