THE 2006 DeGroot PRIZE: CALL FOR ENTRIES
The DeGroot Prize is awarded to the author or authors of a published
book in Statistical Science. The Prize is named for Morris ("Morrie") H
DeGroot, and recognizes the impact and importance of his work in
Statistics and Decision Theory, and his marked influence on the
evolution of the discipline over several decades through his personal
scholarship, educational and professional leadership.
Award winning books will be textbooks or monographs concerned with
fundamental issues of statistical inference, decision theory and/or
statistical applications, and will be chosen based on their novelty,
thoroughness, timeliness, and importance of their intellectual scope.
NOMINATION for the 2006 award MUST BE RECEIVED BY Friday, 6th January
2006. Only books published during the 5 year period ending December 31,
2004 are eligible for consideration for the prize this year. There is
no restriction on publisher or country of publication. Books authored
or co-authored by members of the selection committee are ineligible for
consideration. The winner of the 2006 DeGroot Prize will be announced
at the Valencia/ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June,
2006.
Letters of nomination should be submitted electronically to the chair of
the selection committee,
Professor Steffen L. Lauritzen
Department of Statistics
University of Oxford
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Nominations should include the name of the author(s) and the book, the
date of publication, and a very brief one to two sentence supporting
statement. If the book does not include any biographical information on
the author(s), then a brief one-paragraph biographical statement for
each author would be helpful.
COPIES OF THE NOMINATION LETTER AND THE BOOK SHOULD BE SENT DIRECTLY TO
ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS. The webpage
http://www.bayesian.org/awards/DeGrootPrize.html
contains the full list of the members and their addresses, as well as
further information about the prize.
Best regards,
Steffen Lauritzen
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