20 Facts About Joseph Hilbe

Joseph Michael Hilbe was an American statistician and philosopher, founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association and one of the most prolific authors of books on statistical modeling in the early twenty-first century.

Joseph Hilbe was a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Full Member of the American Astronomical Society.

Joseph Hilbe made a number of contributions to the fields of count response models and logistic regression.

Joseph Hilbe was editor-in-chief of the Springer Series in Astrostatistics, which began in 2011, was one of two co-editors for the Astrostatistics and AstroInformatics Portal, a co-ordinated website for the major astrostatistical organizations worldwide, hosted by the Pennsylvania State University Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and was coordinating editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Predictive Analytics in Action, which commenced in 2012.

Joseph Hilbe was chair of the ISI sports statistics committee from 2007 to 2011 and chair of the 2014 Section on Statistics and Sports of the American Statistical Association.

Joseph Hilbe attended California State University, Chico, from which he graduated in 1968 with a degree in philosophy.

Joseph Hilbe studied for his doctorate in philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles where he was a graduate reader for visiting professor and Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek and personal assistant to Rudolf Carnap, one of the founders of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivism.

Joseph Hilbe served as the founding editor of the Stata Technical Bulletin from 1991 to 1993, for which he developed a variety of statistical software commands, including the first generalized linear model program having a negative binomial regression family.

Joseph Hilbe is regarded as having popularized negative binomial regression, particularly in the disciplines of biostatistics and health outcomes analysis.

In 1992 Joseph Hilbe was appointed as an adjunct professor of Statistics in the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Joseph Hilbe served in several corporate positions during the 1990s, including the positions of lead statistician for Genentech's National Registry for Myocardial Infarctions and lead statistician for Hoffman-La Roche's Canadian National Registry for Cardiovascular Disease.

Joseph Hilbe was one of the longest-serving editors for a publication of the American Statistical Association, holding the position of Software Reviews Editor for The American Statistician for twelve years from 1997 to 2009.

In 2008 Joseph Hilbe initiated the International Statistical Institute's Astrostatistics Interest Group.

Joseph Hilbe was on the scientific organizing committee of the first IAU symposium on astrostatistics, Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology, held in May 2013 in Lisbon.

In 2009 Joseph Hilbe received the Distinguished Alumnus award from California State University, Chico.

Joseph Hilbe is the only graduate of the university to receive both awards.

In 2010, Joseph Hilbe was inducted into the Paradise High School Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 2011 was inducted into the Woodside Priory High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

Joseph Hilbe was married to Cheryl Swisher in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has four children.

Joseph Hilbe set Hawaii state records for javelin, which is still the recognized state mark.

Joseph Hilbe was a lead competition official and IAAF technical official at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and was hired by Turner Broadcasting System to serve as athletics broadcast coordinator for the 1990 Goodwill Games held in Seattle, Washington.