Award Winners

The award winners are (in random order):

• Xiao Ni, North Carolina State U,
  Automatic model selection for partial linear models.
• Clifford Lam, Princeton University,
  Profile-kernel likelihood inference with diverging number of parameters.
• Ping Bai, U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill,
  Robust singular value decomposition and its application to independent component analysis for fMRI.
• Man-Hua Chen, U of Missouri - Columbia,
  The proportional odds model for multivariate interval-censored failure time data.

Student Awards and Travel Grants

The 2007 Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium will be held during June 3-6, 2007, at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The Symposium will sponsor Student Awards and Travel Grants. The main purpose of these awards is to encourage student members of ICSA to participate and present their research work at this annual meeting.

Qualifications

The student must be an ICSA member (or join at the time of manuscript submission), a degree candidate in any term during the academic year 2006-2007 at an accredited institute and be able to register and present the work at the 2007 symposium.

Manuscripts should be prepared double spaced using Biometrics or JASA guidelines for authors. They must be no more than 20 pages in length exclusive of tables and figures. Use one-inch margins and no smaller than 12 point type. The work must be relevant to applications in a variety of fields including biomedicine, business, etc. The manuscript may be co-authored with a faculty adviser and/or a small number of collaborators, although the student must be the first author.

Review and Selection Process

The members of the Student Award Committee and the J. P. Hsu Memorial Scholarship Committee will receive blinded copies of the submitted manuscripts from the Committee Chairs and review them based on the following criteria:

• The manuscript should be well motivated by an application relevant to the specific field(s).
• The methodology developed should be applicable to the motivating problem. Inclusion of an application of the proposed methodology to a particular study will be favorably considered.
• Organization and clarity of the presentation will be considered as well.

Up to 4 award winners will be selected by the Awards Committees.

Each winner will receive a certificate, $400, and tuition for one short course of his/her choice. Winners will be notified around April 30, 2007.

Submission of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be received and postmarked no later than April 1, 2007.The submission should include:

• A cover letter
• One complete title page with author(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers and email address
• Five copies of the manuscripts with only a title, but no information on authors or affiliation, on the first page
• Two copies of abstract
• Two copies of the ICSA membership application for non-members