ASA - W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing

Organization: American Statistical Association

The W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing was established in 1985 to recognize publications that make outstanding contributions to the design and/or analysis of interlaboratory tests, or describe ingenious approaches to the planning and evaluation of data from such tests.Interlaboratory tests, sometimes called collaborative studies or round robins, constitute a broad field of statistical activity in commercial, regulatory, and industrial practice. They are used in many disciplines for comparing results produced in different laboratories, for determining consensus values, and for assessing and developing test methods. Such studies are often interactive, with the goal to reduce discrepancies among results obtained in the participating laboratories. Determination of consensus values may include work on reconciling dissimilarities of several contributory data-generating processes by accommodating them, as in analyses of multi-center clinical trials.Eligible publications in English for the award must have appeared, or have been accepted for publication, in professionally referred journals or monograph series during three years prior (1999-2001 for the 2001 award).The award consists of a certificate and a $1,000 cash prize.