ISBA Prizes and Awards
Prizes
ISBA co-sponsors a variety of awards for outstanding contributions in the field of Bayesian statistical analysis, including:
- The DeGroot Prize (for a book in statistical science)
- The Lindley Prize (for a contributed paper at an ISBA world meeting)
- The Mitchell Prize (for a Bayesian analysis of an important applied problem)
- The Savage Award (for outstanding doctoral dissertations).
The individual prize pages are available from the links above and provide more detaila about each award and past winners. The six-person ISBA Prize Committee, appoints an Award Committee for each prize. See ISBA Bylaw C for more details.
ISBA Awards
ISBA currently offers three travel awards for young researchers to participate in ISBA meetings:
- ISBA Lifetime Members Junior Researcher Award for all young researchers to participatean ISBA Meetings, intended to recognize the contributions to ISBA by its Life Members.
- Pilar Iglesias Travel Award for students from developing countries to attend an ISBA Meeting
- Student Travel Awards open to any ISBA member who is a student in a degree program
The program chair of each ISBA meeting determines the process for selecting awardees (see ISBA Bylaw D)
In addition, from time to time the Society has expressed its appreciation for exceptional contributions to ISBA in the form of:
