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The Ronald R. Hocking Endowed Lecture Series in Statistics on “Linear Models and Their Generalizations” was gifted from Dr. Ersen Arseven to the Statistics Department in 2001 to recognize exceptional contributions to the field of general linear models and their generalizations. The lecture series was designed to celebrate Dr. Hocking’s three-fold development of the theory, teaching, and application of linear models. Recipients  will receive an honorarium and a placard at the award ceremony.

Previous Lecturers

  • 2022 Liza Levina (Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan) April 8, 2022

  • 2019 Charles McCulloch (Professor & Head of Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco) November 15, 2019

  • 2018 Peiyong Annie Qu (Director of Statistics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) October 5, 2018
    Merlise Clyde (Professor & Chair of Statistical Science, Duke University) December 3, 2018

  • 2011 John Sall (Co-Founder and Executive VP of SAS)

    Garrett Fitzmaurice (Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health)
    Goutam Chakraborty (Professor of Marketing, Oklahoma State University)

  • 2009 Tim Hesterberg (Senior Ads Quality Statistician, Google-Seattle Engineering)
    Brian Marx (Dept of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State Univ.)
    Oliver Schabenberger (Senior Research Statistician, SAS Institute)

  • 2007 Ronald Hocking (Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Texas A&M University)
    Dallas Johnson (Professor Emeritus, Kansas State University)
    Michael Kutner (Prof. & Chair Biostatistics, Emory University)
    Ramon Littell (Prof. & Assoc. Chair Ag-Statistics, Univ. of Florida)

  • 2003 David A. Harville (Iowa State University)

  • 2002 (Inaugural Lecture) Ronald Hocking (Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Texas A&M University)