COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship

The R. A. Fisher Lectureship is a very high recognition of achievement and scholarship in statistical science, and recognizes the highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations. The R. A. Fisher Lecture is given at the Joint Statistical Meetings in North America and is subsequently published in an statistics journal. The lecturer receives a plaque and a cash award of US$1000. The award was established in 1963 by the North American Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) in recognition of the British statistician Ronald Fisher. It is given every year if an eligible and worthy nominee is found (which one was in all but 5 years up to 2008).

Two other series of lectures are also named after R. A. Fisher:

• The Fisher Memorial Lecture on an application of mathematics to biology, usually given in the UK and first given in 1964
• The Sir Ronald Fisher Lecture on genetics, evolutionary biology or statistics, given at the University of Adelaide,Australia and first given in 1990

References

• "Operating Procedures for the Fisher Lecture Selection Committee" (PDF). Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
• Altman, Douglas G. (2005). "Fisher Lectures". Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. Wiley Interscience. doi:10.1002/0470011815.b2a17044.
• Senn, Stephen (2007-12-13). "Fisher Memorial Committee". Retrieved 2008-02-26.