Obituaries

摘要

W. Jackson "Jack" Hall-a Fellow of the ASA, emeritus professor of statistics, and professor in the department of biostatis-tics and computational biology at the University of Rochester-died peacefully on October 14, 2012, at the age of 82.rnIn the course of his long and highly distinguished career, Jack made deep and influential contributions to many areas of statistics, including decision theory, Bayesian statistics, survival analysis, semiparametric inference, and sequential analysis. In recent years, he used his expertise in sequential analysis to work extensively with medical colleagues to develop innovative statistical designs for clinical trials in cardiology.