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William Rosenberger, distinguished university professor in Mason's Statistics Department, has been named the 41st Fisher Memorial Lecturer.
“Being a Fisher lecturer is a significant recognition, affirming Bill's stature as one of the foremost statistical minds. It's a great honor for GMU, as one of its faculty claims one of the 41 distinguished spots globally among all universities,” said Statistics Department Chair Jiayang Sun.
The 41st Fisher Memorial Lecture is presented in cooperation with the Fisher Memorial Trust (FMT). The FMT was set up to promote interest in the life and work of the great statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) Each year, FMT invites an eminent statistician to deliver a lecture in honor of Fisher.
Rosenberger presented 'From Fisher to CARA: The Evolution of Randomization and Randomization-Based Inference' on March 1 at Cambridge University, with international broadcast coverage. This talk gave the historical context of randomization and randomization-based inference from Fisher to the present day, including newer concepts such as response-adaptive, covariate-adaptive, and covariate-adjusted response-adaptive (CARA) randomization.
“It was be challenging to condense a year of material into one hour, but a devoted Fisherian should be able to be efficient and sufficient,” said Rosenberger.