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== Awards ==
== Awards ==
Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9494097.htm|access-date=2021-04-05|website=PRWeb}}</ref>
Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9494097.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630172941/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9494097.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 30, 2018|access-date=2021-04-05|website=PRWeb}}</ref>


Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=2017 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Advancing Science {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/2017-aaas-fellows-recognized-advancing-science|access-date=2021-04-05|website=www.aaas.org|language=en}}</ref>
Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=2017 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Advancing Science {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/2017-aaas-fellows-recognized-advancing-science|access-date=2021-04-05|website=www.aaas.org|language=en}}</ref>

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Nicholas (Nick) Horton is an American statistics professor and author. He is the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College.[1] In 2022, he began a 3-year term as the vice president of the American Statistical Association.[2]

Education

Horton completed his A.B. at Harvard College and his Sc.D. at the Harvard School of Public Health.[1]

Work

Horton has written multiple books focusing on R and SAS.[1][3] He is also an author in the fields of statistics education and missing data. He is one of the authors of the GAISE guidelines.[4] With Ben Baumer and Daniel Kaplan, he is the author of Modern Data Science with R.[5] Other notable[citation needed] works include:

  • Normal Sexual Dimorphism of the Adult Human Brain Assessed by In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging [6]
  • Much ado about nothing: A comparison of missing data methods and software to fit incomplete data regression models[7]

He is an editor for the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (JSDSE).[8]

Awards

Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[9]

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[10]

Personal life

Horton resides in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife, Julia Riseman.[11] The two are advocates for bicycle trails.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Horton, Nicholas J. | Faculty & Staff | Amherst College". www.amherst.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  2. ^ "Alumnus Nick Horton Elected ASA Vice President". Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  3. ^ Kleinman, Ken (2014). SAS and R: data management, statistical analysis, and graphics. Nicholas J. Horton (2nd ed.). Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-4665-8450-1. OCLC 881692641.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ "Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education Reports". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  5. ^ Baumer, Benjamin S. (2021). Modern data science with R. Daniel T. Kaplan, Nicholas J. Horton (2nd ed.). Boca Raton. ISBN 978-0-367-19149-8. OCLC 1245354400.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Goldstein, Jill M.; Seidman, Larry J.; Horton, Nicholas J.; Makris, Nikos; Kennedy, David N.; Caviness, Verne S. Jr; Faraone, Stephen V.; Tsuang, Ming T. (2001-06-01). "Normal Sexual Dimorphism of the Adult Human Brain Assessed by In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging". Cerebral Cortex. 11 (6): 490–497. doi:10.1093/cercor/11.6.490. ISSN 1047-3211. PMID 11375910.
  7. ^ Horton, Nicholas J.; Kleinman, Ken P. (2007-02-01). "Much ado about nothing: A comparison of missing data methods and software to fit incomplete data regression models". The American Statistician. 61 (1): 79–90. doi:10.1198/000313007X172556. ISSN 0003-1305. PMC 1839993. PMID 17401454.
  8. ^ "Meet the ASA's 2022 Incoming Editors | Amstat News". 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  9. ^ "American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012". PRWeb. Archived from the original on June 30, 2018. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  10. ^ "2017 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Advancing Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  11. ^ Dunau, Bera (2019-08-31). "A new dawn for rail? Valley Flyer pilot makes its debut". Amherst Bulletin.
  12. ^ Kohout, George (2016-01-06). "George Kohout: Recognizing two unsung heroes of Northampton trails, greenways". Daily Hampshire Gazette.