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---+++ Important Components of ASA Nomination Guidelines for Letters of Support |  [[http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows.aspx ASA Fellows Home Page]]

   * Letters of support are generally the most important input to the committee's assessment. Nominators need to obtain 4 convincing letters of support for the nomination from qualified individuals.
   * To be effective, a letter should describe the nominee's specific accomplishments, and their impact, based on the writer's personal knowledge. Letters should support the principal points made in the nominator’s narrative recommendation, or other points with which the nominator is not familiar. To be most helpful to the Committee, statements asserting the importance of a particular accomplishment or piece of work should include an informative explanation of why it is influential.
   * It is beneficial to demonstrate that the statistical contributions have been influential (not just responsive and useful) and can make a persuasive explanation for their judgment.
   * The most effective letters of support are direct, but specific. Assertions about the importance of a particular accomplishment should be accompanied by evidence of its impact, where possible. On the other hand, overly expansive discussions tend to detract from the persuasiveness of a letter.  In any case, each letter of support is limited to *two pages* with 12pt font.
   * Document leadership, accomplishments, innovations, what is new or has improved something in the world or changed the practice of statistics, and if occupied an administrative position what did the candidate achieve in that role
   * The supporting statement and CV may be retrieved from the bottom of this web page.
   * The [[%ATTACHURL%/SupportingStatement.pdf][Supporting Statement]] will be very helpful to you in writing your letter.
   * Address the heading of the support letter to Committee on Fellows, American Statistical Association.  Do not include a mailing address in the addressee field.
   * Letters of Support should be sent to the Nominator who is responsible for including the support letters in the nomination package
      * Supporting letters are submitted electronically by the nominator, as *pdf attachments* containing your letterhead.  The preferred approach is to e-mail a signed pdf attachment to =william.dupont@vanderbilt.edu=
      * Otherwise, please send a scannable hard copy to <br> William Dupont <br> Vanderbilt University School of Medicine <br> 2525 West End Ave Ste 1100<br> Nashville TN 37203-1738<br>Phone: (615)322.2001
      * Please send by 16 Feb 2018 at the very latest
      * [[http://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/fellows/ExampleLettersofSupport.pdf Example letters of support]]
   * *Important!* Do Not mail/send a support letter to ASA independently of the nomination package. Supporting letters that are received at the ASA office independently of the nomination package are not guaranteed to be reviewed by the Committee on Fellows.

---+++ Draft Citation
*Jeffrey Blume*, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine:  For innovation in creating a new and highly successful graduate program in biostatistics that bridges frequentist, likelihood, and Bayesian paradigms, excellence as a teacher and mentor, national presence as a thought leader in likelihood-based inference and moving beyond the p-value for statistical inference, for innovative applications of likelihood inference to biomedical research, and for service to the profession.
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   * [[%ATTACHURL%/cv.pdf][Jeffrey Blume CV]]
   * [[%ATTACHURL%/SupportingStatement.pdf Supporting Statement]]




-- Main.FrankHarrell - 11 Jan 2018

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pdf	SupportingStatement.pdf	manage	79.6 K	11 Jan 2018 - 17:59	FrankHarrell	Blume Supporting Statement
pdf	cv.pdf	manage	206.2 K	11 Jan 2018 - 17:59	FrankHarrell	Blume CV

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