The Wilks Memorial Award is awarded by the

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to recognize outstanding contributions to statistics. It was established in 1964 and is awarded yearly. It is named in memory of the statistician Samuel S. Wilks. The award consists of a medal, a citation and a cash honorarium of US$1500 (as of 2008).

Recipients

*1964 Frank E. Grubbs *1965

John W. Tukey John Wilder Tukey (; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribut ...

*1966 Leslie E. Simon *1967 William G. Cochran *1968

Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University Colleg ...

*1969 W. J. Youden *1970

George W. Snedecor George Waddel Snedecor (October 20, 1881 – February 15, 1974) was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of analysis of variance, data analysis, experimental design, and statistical methodology. Snedecor ...

*1971 Harold F. Dodge *1972 George E.P. Box *1973 Herman Otto Hartley *1974

Cuthbert Daniel Cuthbert Daniel (August 27, 1904 – August 8, 1997) was an American industrial statistician. Daniel was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of T ...

*1975 Herbert Solomon *1976

Solomon Kullback Solomon Kullback (April 3, 1907August 5, 1994) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Fra ...

*1977 Churchill Eisenhart *1978 William Kruskal *1979 Alexander M. Mood *1980 W. Allen Wallis *1981

Holbrook Working Holbrook Working (February 5, 1895 – October 5, 1985) was an American professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University's Food Research Institute known for his contributions on hedging, on the theory of futures prices, on an early t ...

*1982 Frank Proschan *1983

W. Edwards Deming William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical ...

*1984 Z. W. Birnbaum *1985 Leo A. Goodman *1986

Frederick Mosteller Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006) was an American mathematician, considered one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department from 19 ...

*1987

Herman Chernoff Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was formerly a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, and MIT, currently emeritus at Harvard University. Early l ...

*1988 Theodore W. Anderson *1989 C. R. Rao *1990

Bradley Efron Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Lead ...

*1991

Ingram Olkin Ingram Olkin (July 23, 1924 – April 28, 2016) was a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is known for developing statistical analysis for evalua ...

*1992

Wilfrid Dixon Wilfrid Joseph Dixon (December 13, 1915 – September 20, 2008) was an American mathematician and statistician. He made notable contributions to nonparametric statistics, statistical education and experimental design. A native of Portland, ...

*1993 Norman L. Johnson *1994

Emanuel Parzen Emanuel Parzen (April 21, 1929 – February 6, 2016) was an American statistician. He worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation (also known as the Parzen w ...

*1995

Donald Rubin Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

*1996 Erich L. Lehmann *1997

Leslie Kish Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist.. Reprint of an obituary from ''International Statistical Institute (ISI) Newsletter'', Volume 25, No. 73. Life a ...

*1998 David O. Siegmund *1999 Lynne Billard *2000 Stephen Fienberg *2001 George C. Tiao *2002 Lawrence D. Brown *2003 David L. Wallace *2004 Paul Meier *2005 Roderick J. A. Little *2006 Marvin Zelen *2007 Colin L. Mallows *2008 Scott Zeger *2009 Lee-Jen Wei *2010

Pranab K. Sen Pranab Kumar Sen (born 7 November 1937 in Calcutta, India)Curriculum vitae
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*2011 Nan Laird *2012

Peter Gavin Hall Peter Gavin Hall (20 November 1951 – 9 January 2016) was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical ...

*2013

Kanti Mardia Kantilal Vardichand "Kanti" Mardia (born 1935) is an Indian-British statistician specialising in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis. He was born in Sirohi, Ra ...

*2014 Madan L. Puri *2015 James O. Berger *2016

David Donoho David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957) is an American statistician. He is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. His work includes the develop ...

*2017

Wayne Fuller Wayne Arthur Fuller (born June 15, 1931) is an American statistician who has specialised in econometrics, survey sampling and time series analysis. He was on the staff of Iowa State University from 1959, becoming a Distinguished Professor in 1983 ...

*2018 Peter J. Bickel *2019 Alan E. Gelfand *2020

Malay Ghosh Malay Ghosh (Bengali: মলয় ঘোষ) is an Indian statistician and currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida. He obtained a B.S. in 1962 from the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. in 1964 from the Un ...

*2021 Sallie Ann Keller

References

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