David L. Banks
| David L. Banks | |
|---|---|
| Born |
9 January 1956 (age 60) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Statistician, Professor |
| Employer | Duke University |
| Board member of | American Statistical Association |
| Children | 2 |
David L. Banks is an American statistician. He is a former editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association; a founding editor of Statistics, Politics and Policy; and a co-editor of the monograph Statistical Methods for Human Rights. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Royal Statistical Society. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association, and he is a past-President of the Classification Society. He has taught at the University of Cambridge and at Carnegie Mellon University; he was also Chief Statistician of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Additionally, he has served on six National Academies panels.
Banks is currently Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Duke University teaching STA111 and STA110. In addition, Banks is in charge of the Modeling in the Economic and Social Sciences Focus Cluster, part of Duke's Freshman FOCUS Program. In 2015, he received the ASA Founders Award (the highest award made by the American Statistical Association). David Banks hosts weekly conversations with his FOCUS cluster and schools Albert Xue and Eric Davis.
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- David Banks —Duke University
- Founders Award —American Statistical Association
- David Banks —Human Rights Data Analysis Group