AmStat Section News, August 2004
Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR)
Sandra McBride
Student Paper Award 2004
The ENVR Student Paper Award Committee gave its awards at its annual
meeting/reception at JSM.
The winner of competition was Holly Janes, University
of Washington, for her paper, "Overlap bias in the case-crossover design,
with application to air pollution exposures," co-authored with Lianne
Sheppard and Thomas Lumley. Holly received a certificate and $1000 prize.
Honorable mention was awarded to Mikyoung Jun, University of Chicago, for her
paper "Statistical comparison of observed and CMAQ modeled daily sulfate
levels," co-authored with Michael L. Stein.