The 2017 Karl Pearson Prize was awarded to Roderick J. Little and Donald B. Rubin for their book Statistical Analysis With Missing Data, published by John Wiley & Sons (1987).
The work of Roderick J. Little and Donald B. Rubin, laid out in their seminal 1978 Biometrika papers and 1987 book, updated in 2002, has been no less than defining and transforming. Earlier missing data work was ad hoc at best. Little and Rubin defined the field and provided the methodological and applied communities with a useful and usable taxonomy and a set of key results. Today, their terminology and methodology is used more than ever. Their work has been transforming for the deep impact it had and has on both statistical practice and theory. It is one of the rare topics that has continued for the past thirty years to be studied and developed in academia, government and industry. For example, it plays a key role in the current work on sensitivity analysis with incomplete data.
The prize was presented on 21 July 2017 at the 61st ISI World Statistics Congress in Marrakech.
The 2017 Karl Pearson Prize was awarded to Roderick J. Little and Donald B. Rubin for their book Statistical Analysis With Missing Data, published by John Wiley & Sons (1987).
The work of Roderick J. Little and Donald B. Rubin, laid out in their seminal 1978 Biometrika papers and 1987 book, updated in 2002, has been no less than defining and transforming. Earlier missing data work was ad hoc at best. Little and Rubin defined the field and provided the methodological and applied communities with a useful and usable taxonomy and a set of key results. Today, their terminology and methodology is used more than ever. Their work has been transforming for the deep impact it had and has on both statistical practice and theory. It is one of the rare topics that has continued for the past thirty years to be studied and developed in academia, government and industry. For example, it plays a key role in the current work on sensitivity analysis with incomplete data.
The prize was presented on 21 July 2017 at the 61st ISI World Statistics Congress in Marrakech.