Lecture #37 - 2007
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto, "Weighting the Likelihood Function" and "Putting Asymptotics to Work"
Lecture #36 - 2006
Alan Agresti, University of Florida, "Reducing Conservatism of Exact Small-Sample Inference for Discrete Data" and "A Twentieth Century Tour of Categorical Data Analysis"
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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #29 - 1998
Ulf Grenander, Brown University, "Computational Anatomy" and "A Bayesian Approach to Vision"
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 #27 - 1996
Trevor Hastie, Stanford University, "Flexible Discriminant and Mixture Models" and "Metrics and Models for Handwritten Digit Recognition"
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 #25 - 1994
Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago, "The Role of Models in Statistics" and "Some Remarks on Over-Dispersion"
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 #23 - 1992
Herbert Robbins, Columbia University, "Big N, Little n: Minimizing the Ethical Cost of a Clinical Trial" and "Estimation Under Biased Allocation"
Lecture #22 - 1991
T.W. Anderson, Stanford University, "R.A. Fisher and Multivariate Analysis" and "Goodness-of-fit Tests for Spectral Distributions"
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 #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 #19 - 1988
Tom Ferguson, University of California-Berkeley, "Who Solved the Secretary Problem?" and "Some Time-Invariant Stopping Rule Problems"
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 #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 #16 - 1985
George E.P. Box, University of Wisconsin, "Analyzing Fractional Designs" and "Thoughts on Some Ideas of Genichi Taguchi"
Lecture #15 - 1984
Wayne Fuller, Iowa State University, "Measurement Error in Regression" and "Nonlinear Measurement Error Models"
Lecture #14 - 1983
J. Stuart Hunter, Princeton University, "Theory Sigma: Quality Through Statistical Methods" and "Fractional Factorials: Sequential and Prior Analysis"
Lecture #13 - 1982
Colin L. Mallows, Bell Telephone Laboratories, "Robust Methods -- Applications and Basic Concepts" and "Robust Methods -- Theory"
Lecture #12 - 1981
David J. Bartholomew, London School of Economics and Political Science" and "Latent Variable Models in Statistics"
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 #10 - 1979
Robert V. Hogg, University of Iowa, "On Statistics at Iowa: Before 1950" and "On Statistics at Iowa: After 1950"
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 #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 #7 - 1976
Brad Efron, Stanford University, "How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?" and "Regression and ANOVA with 0-1 Data"
Lecture #6 - 1975
Dennis V. Lindley, University College, London, "Getting Married and Related Problems" and "Analysis of Variance"
Lecture #5 - 1974
Jack Kiefer, Cornell University, "Foundations of Statistics: Are There Any?" and "How to Find an Optimum Design"
Lecture #4 - 1973
H.D. Brunk, Oregon State University, "Bayesian Inference: Some Introductory Illustrations" and "Some Bayesian Approaches to Nonparametric Estimation"
Lecture #3 - 1972
William Kruskal, University of Chicago, "Federal Statistics: People and Problems" and "Statistics: Public Policy and Private Understanding"
Lecture #2 - 1971
Frederick Mosteller, Harvard University, "Statistics in Society"
Lecture #1 - 1970
Allen T. Craig
