THE BIOMETRICS SECTION OF
THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
DAVID P. BYAR
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR 2017 BYARYOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD AND BIOMETRICS SECTION TRAVEL AWARDS
Applications for the 2017 David P. Byar Young Investigator Award are invited. This annual award is given to a young investigator for a paper to be presented at the JSM. The award commemorates the late David Byar, a biostatistician who made significant contributions to the development and application of statistical methods and was esteemed as an exceptional mentor during his career at the National Cancer Institute. The winner will receive a $2,000 cash award.
In addition to the Byar Award, the Section will provide $1000 travel awards to the authors of other outstanding papers that are submitted to the competition.
All applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Have held a doctorate in statistics, biostatistics or a related quantitative field for three years or less as of April 1 of the current year, or be currently enrolled as a student in a doctoral program in statistics or biostatistics and in active pursuit of a doctoral degree.
- Be a current member of the Biometrics Section (applicant may join at the time of submission for a $5 annual membership fee [$3 for students]). Please note that membership in ASA does not automatically confer Section membership; ASA members must join individual sections in addition to their generic membership.
- Be first author of the paper. The paper may be unsubmitted, submitted or under review, but may not have already appeared in a journal either on-line or in print at the time of the application or have been accepted for publication as of December 1, 2016.
- Be scheduled to present the same paper submitted for the Award at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland as either a talk or poster.
- Not have submitted the paper to any other ASA section 2017 student/young investigator award competition.
- Not be a previous Byar award or Biometrics Section travel award winner.
Applicants must submit their JSM abstracts to the Biometrics Section, which will organize a series of Topic Contributed sessions to highlight the Byaraward and travel award winners.
Applicants should complete their application by submitting the following materials:
- Current CV.
- One page cover letter that summarizes the paper's content and contribution.
- One copy of the paper
- 3-5 key words describing paper topic areas
The paper should be a maximum of 25 double-spaced pages (with max of 25 lines per page) including abstract, references and appendices but not including tables and figures. Papers that are not within these restrictions will not be considered for an award.
All materials must be submitted electronically on or before December 1, 2016 using the electronic submission website: You may open the survey in your web browser by clicking the link below:
2017 ASA Biometrics Section Byar Award Competition
Questions should be sent to the Biometrics Section 2016 Chair, Debashis Ghosh, at debashis.ghosh@ucdenver.edu
The 2017 Awards Committee is composed of the 2017 current and past Section Chairs and Chair-Elect as well as other additional persons.
For the 2017 competition, the winners of the Byar Award and travel awards will be announced by January 15, 2017. Award winners should contact the 2017 Section JSM Program Chair, Barbara Engelhardt, at bee@princeton.edu
and submit a Topic Contributed abstract for JSM 2017.
Information regarding this award is also available on the Section webpage, easily accessed by clicking on the "Section" tab at the top of the ASA website (www.amstat.org).
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Debashis Ghosh
Chair and Professor
University of Colorado, School of Public Health
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