Michael Abbott Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian statistician. He is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2004. [1] He has written many research papers about the statistical analysis of cancer biology, including linkage analysis and signal identification.
Newton received his B.Sc. in mathematics and statistics from Dalhousie University in 1986, and his PhD in statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1991 (under the supervision of Adrian E. Raftery). [2]
In 2003 Newton won the Spiegelman Award (presented annually by the American Public Health Association to an outstanding public health statistician under age 40). [3] He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007. [4] Newton gave a Presidential Invited Address at the International Biometric Society WNAR (Western North American Region) conference in 2002 and was an IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2011.
References
- ^ "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed August 14, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Michael A. Newton," Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, accessed August 14, 2011, http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~newton/cv/cv.pdf[ permanent dead link].
- ^ "Spiegelman Award," American Public Health Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/stats/about/spiegelman.htm Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
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Michael Abbott Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian statistician. He is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2004. [1] He has written many research papers about the statistical analysis of cancer biology, including linkage analysis and signal identification.
Newton received his B.Sc. in mathematics and statistics from Dalhousie University in 1986, and his PhD in statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1991 (under the supervision of Adrian E. Raftery). [2]
In 2003 Newton won the Spiegelman Award (presented annually by the American Public Health Association to an outstanding public health statistician under age 40). [3] He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007. [4] Newton gave a Presidential Invited Address at the International Biometric Society WNAR (Western North American Region) conference in 2002 and was an IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2011.
References
- ^ "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed August 14, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Michael A. Newton," Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, accessed August 14, 2011, http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~newton/cv/cv.pdf[ permanent dead link].
- ^ "Spiegelman Award," American Public Health Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/stats/about/spiegelman.htm Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
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| Academics | |