American Statistical Association
Biometrics Section

Byar Award Winner

Egil Ferkingstad , Ph.D. student at the University of Oslo, has been selected by the ASA Biometrics Section as this year's winner of the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. Egil received a $1000 cash award, presented during the JSM, for her paper, "Covariate-modulated false discovery rates".

Travel Award Winners

This year, an additional author of an outstanding paper was chosen to receive a $500 Travel Award.  Mr. Min Zhang , a graduate student in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University, presented his paper, "Improving efficacy of inferences in randomized clinical trials using auxillary covariates".

Congratulations to Egil and Min on this notable accomplishment!