Professor Emeritus Herman van Dijk of Erasmus School of Economics has been awarded the 2022 Zellner Medal from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). The medal recognises ISBA members who have "rendered exceptional service to ISBA over an extended period of time, with a long-lasting impact."
According to Sudipto Banerjee, President of the ISBA, Herman Van Dijk is honoured for being an early supporter of ISBA, one of the most influential Bayesians amongst econometricians, and for being an outstanding Bayesian scholar who has advanced the Zellner tradition in economic statistics through fundamental contributions to simulation-based Bayesian econometric techniques for inference, forecasting, and decision analysis.
Professor Van Dijk is currently the only Dutch scientist who received the Savage Prize - for his doctoral dissertation - and the Zellner Medal as oeuvre award. Van Dijk is very pleased: ‘I feel honoured to be the winner of the 2022 Zellner Medal. What makes it all very special is that I have known and worked with Arnold Zellner.’
About Arnold Zellner
The Zellner Medal is named for Arnold Zellner, an American economist and statistician who performed pioneering research in Bayesian analysis and econometric modeling. In 2006, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam conferred an honorary doctorate on Arnold Zellner and 2003 Nobel Prize winner Sir Clive Granger, in recognition of their fundamental contributions to the development of dynamic econometric models.
About the ISBA
The ISBA was founded in 1992 to promote the development and application of Bayesian analysis useful in the solution of theoretical and applied problems in science, industry and government. It is the largest interdisciplinary society for sciences to promote Bayesian Analysis.
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