The Wilks Memorial Award is awarded by the American Statistical Association to recognize outstanding contributions to statistics. It was established in 1964 and is awarded yearly. It is named in memory of the statistician Samuel S. Wilks. The award consists of a medal, a citation and a cash honorarium that was set at US$1,000 in 2008 and increases annually.

It is separate from the The Wilks Award for Contributions to Statistical Methodologies in Army Research, Development, and Testing that is presented by the United States Army.

Recipients

1964 Frank E. Grubbs 1965 John W. Tukey 1966 Leslie E. Simon 1967 William G. Cochran 1968 Jerzy Neyman 1969 W. J. Youden 1970 George W. Snedecor 1971 Harold F. Dodge 1972 George E.P. Box 1973 Herman Otto Hartley 1974 Cuthbert Daniel 1975 Herbert Solomon 1976 Solomon Kullback 1977 Churchill Eisenhart 1978 William Kruskal 1979 Alexander M. Mood 1980 W. Allen Wallis 1981 Holbrook Working 1982 Frank Proschan 1983 W. Edwards Deming 1984 Z. W. Birnbaum 1985 Leo A. Goodman 1986 Frederick Mosteller 1987 Herman Chernoff 1988 Theodore W. Anderson 1989 C. R. Rao 1990 Bradley Efron 1991 Ingram Olkin 1992 Wilfrid Dixon 1993 Norman L. Johnson 1994 Emanuel Parzen 1995 Donald Rubin 1996 Erich L. Lehmann 1997 Leslie Kish 1998 David O. Siegmund 1999 Lynne Billard 2000 Stephen Fienberg 2001 George C. Tiao 2002 Lawrence D. Brown 2003 David L. Wallace 2004 Paul Meier 2005 Roderick J. A. Little 2006 Marvin Zelen 2007 Colin L. Mallows 2008 Scott Zeger 2009 Lee-Jen Wei 2010 Pranab K. Sen 2011 Nan Laird 2012 Peter Gavin Hall 2013 Kanti Mardia 2014 Madan Lal Puri 2015 James O. Berger 2016 David Donoho 2017 Wayne Fuller 2018 Peter J. Bickel 2019 Alan E. Gelfand 2020 Malay Ghosh 2021 Sallie Ann Keller 2022 Jessica Utts 2023 Jeremy M. Taylor 2024 Joseph G. Ibrahim 2025 James J. Cochran

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