Joseph Gastwirth

Joseph Lewis Gastwirth (born August 31, 1938) is an American statistician, and a Professor of Statistics at the George Washington University. Gastwirth is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association fasa, Institute of Mathematical Statistics fims, American Association for the Advancement of Science faaas, and elected member of the International Statistical Institute ISI. He is one of the founding editors of Law, Probability and Risk, published by Oxford University Press, serving as Editor-in-Chief for five years, and has been an Associate Editor for all three sections (theory and methods, applications and Reviews) of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, an Associate Editor of the Biometrical Journal (2004-2015) and a member of the Advisory Board of Metron. Although he has contributed to statistical theory and its application in various areas, Gastwirth is especially known for his research on measuring economic inequality and discrimination. 
==Life and career==
Joseph Lewis Gastwirth was born in New York City on August 31, 1938, the son of Paul and Tillie S. Gastwirth. He went to Stuyvesant High School, one of the select high schools in New York city. After graduating summa cum laude from Yale University in 1954 majoring in Mathematics, he obtained his MA in Pure Mathematics from Princeton University in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from Columbia University in 1963, earning his Ph.D. under the direction of L. Tákacs. After a post-doctoral year at Stanford University, working with Professor Herman Chernoff, Gastwirth was an assistant and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University. After spending a sabbatical at Harvard University, teaching and carrying out research on measures of economic inequality, he became the visiting Faculty Advisor to the Office of Statistical Policy at the U. S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in 1971, There Gastwirth became involved with legal statistics, especially the use of statistics in equal employment. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Statistics at George Washington University in Washington DC in 1972. 
==Honors and awards==
* Fellowship in the American Statistical Association (Elected 1970)
* Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1971)
* Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Elected 1972)
* Listed in Who's Who in Economics (1st edition 1980, 2nd ed. 1985)
* Listed in Who's Who in America (1980-81 to present)
* John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1985)
* Recipient of the Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics (1998) for his work on the statistical measurement of economic inequality and discrimination.
* Co-Recipient of the American Statistical Association’s Award for the Outstanding Applications Article (2002) 
* Recipient of the American Statistical Association’s Noether Award for contributions to Non-parametric Statistics (2012)
* Recipient of the American Statistical Association’s Karl E Peace Award (2019) for outstanding statistical contributions for the betterment of society.
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Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Princeton University alumni
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Category:American statisticians
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