ASA - Zellner Thesis Award

Organization: American Statistical Association

The Business and Economics Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association announces the competition for the 2009 Zellner Thesis Award. The award is named for Arnold Zellner, past Chair of the Business and Economics Statistics Section, past President of the American Statistical Association, and founding editor of the Journal of Business and Economics Statistics. The award is for the best Ph.D. thesis dealing with an applied problem in Business and Economic Statistics. It is intended to recognize outstanding work by promising young researchers in the field. The winner of the award, which consists of a $1,500 cash prize, is announced at the Annual ASA Meeting in August. A portion of the winning thesis is eligible for publication in the JBES. The range of topics is quite broad and includes, among others, applied problems in forecasting, seasonal adjustment, data quality, empirical finance, policy evaluation, and empirical economics. Theses in the areas of computation, simulation and graphics are eligible as long as the research is of direct interest to applied workers.