Jay Kadane, Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University will be presented with the award Tuesday, October, 22, 2012 at the East Bank Club, 500 N. Kingbury St. in Chicago at 7 pm. Past recipients chose Dr. Kadane for his contribution to econometrics, political science and medicine. He is a proponent of using statistics to confront global issues. During the post-award dinner, Dr. Kadane will speak on repression of statistics in Argentina where the government forbids statisticians from publishing inflation estimates that differ from their own.
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