Noel Cressie wins top statistics prize

For finding the common ground among many different fields of science, an Ohio State researcher has won the highest honor in his own field of statistics. The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies has awarded Noel Cressie the R.A. Fisher Lectureship for his "meritorious achievement and scholarship in statistical science and highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations." Cressie, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, is the founder and director of Ohio State's Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics. Click here to read more.