The Best Paper Awards of Statistics in Biosciences (SIBS)
Initiating its annual Best Paper Awards in 2021, Statistics in Biosciences (SIBS) gives upto two awards each year to the best papers published in SIBS in the previous year.
The award committee consists of the most recent Past Editor (chair) and the Present Co-Editors. The SIBS Best Paper Awards are announced at the ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium of the year. Each of the awards includes an award certificate from Springer/SIBS and a check up to $1,000 (USD) from ICSA/SIBS. The authors of the papers are invited to talk in the SIBS sponsored session at the ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium of the year.
2022 Statistics in Biosciences Best Paper Award:
Yifan Zhu and Ying Qing Chen, “On a Statistical Transmission Model in Analysis of the Early Phase of COVID-19 Outbreak”, Statistics in Biosciences, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p56-72.
Jonggyu Baek, Magaret Banker, Erica C. Jansen, Xichen She, Karen E. Peterson, E. Andrew Pitchford, and Peter X. K. Song, “An Efficient Segmentation Algorithm to Estimate Sleep Duration from Actigraphy Data”, Statistics in Biosciences, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p563-583.
Congratulations to the winners on their excellent contributions to Statistics in Biosciences!