Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture
Myra Samules
(1940-1992)
The Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture is named in memory of Myra Samuels, who was Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in Purdue's Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and Associate Director of Statistical Consulting in the Department of Statistics. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, under Jerzy Newman, and taught at Purdue for 24 years. Her research was oriented toward issues in biostatistics and included both conceptual issues mathematical statistics and collaborations on applications.
Myra was a member of the American Statistical Association, the Biometric Society and the Society for Clinical Trials. Her textbook, "Statistics for the Life Sciences", published in 1989, is now in its third edition, revised by Jeff Witmer. The textbook is still widely used in courses in statistics.
Myra Samuels Memorial Lectures
- April 3, 2008 - Professor Olga Troyanskaya, "From search and data integration to discovering novel biology or integrated analysis of diverse genomic data in yeast and beyond"
- February 1, 2007 - Professor Xihong Lin, "Statistical Challenges in Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Proteomic Data"
- April 13, 2006 - Professor Michael S. Waterman, "Whole Genome Optical Mapping"
- April 21, 2005 - Professor Wen-Hsiung Li, "Evolutionary and Statistical Analyses of Gene Expression Data"
- April 15, 2004 - Professor Nan Laird, "Family Based Association Tests with Haplotypes"
- June 20, 2003 - Professor Rob Tibshirani, "Least Angle Regression, Forward Stagewise and the Lasso"
- March 28, 2002 - Dr. John Quackenbush, "Back to the Gurutre: Integrating Expression with Genomic, Genetic, and Metabolic Data"
- April 12, 2001 - Professor Charles E. McCulloch, "(Re)Modeling Biometrics"
- April 13, 2000 - Professor Bradley Efron, "Bootstrap Biostat"
- April 16, 1999 - Professor Raymond J. Carroll - "The Statistical Problem of Relating Nutrient Intake and Disease
- April 23, 1998 - Professor George Casella - "Random Cows, Random Corn, and Random Effects"
- April 23, 1997 - Professor Bruce S. Weir - "A Statstician in Court"
- March 22, 1996 - Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, "A Probabilistic Approach to the Phase Problem of X-Ray Crystallography"
