2017 Causality in Statistics Award Winner Announced

摘要

The American Statistical Association will award the fifth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Ilya Shpitser, John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University, at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore. Established in 2013 to "encourage the teaching of basic causal inference methods in introductory statistics courses" from a donation by Judea Pearl-recipient of the 2012 Turing Award and professor of computer science and statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles-the annual award recognizes the work of an individual or team that enhances the teaching and learning of causal inference in introductory statistics coursework. This year, the $5,000 award is being funded by Microsoft Research and Google.