CONTACT: Edward Bedrick, 277-2911 MEDIA CONTACT: Michael Padilla, 277-1816

June 24, 2002 Bedrick Named Fellow of the American Statistical Association Edward J. Bedrick, professor of statistics at the University of New Mexico, will be named Fellow of the American Statistical Association during the annual awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings in New York City on Aug. 13. This year, 48 members of the association were accorded the fellows honor. “It is a great honor to be named a Fellow of the ASA,” Bedrick said. “A lot of credit for the award should go to my collaborators, colleagues and my family for their constant support of my work.” The citation reads as follows: “Edward J. Bedrick, Professor of Statistics, University of New Mexico: For outstanding contributions in the area of statistical diagnostics and biserial correlation, for contributions to the application of statistics through consulting, and for service to the profession.” Bedrick earned a bachelor’s degree at SUNY-Buffalo in 1976 and a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1984. He joined the American Statistical Association in 1982. The American Statistical Association (ASA), a scientific and educational society founded in Boston in 1839, is the second oldest professional society in the United States. For over 160 years, ASA has been providing its nearly 18,000 members serving in academia, government, and industry and the public with up-to-date, useful information about statistics. The ASA has a proud tradition of service to statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across a wealth of academic areas and applications. ###

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