Shlomo Sawilowsky

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Shlomo S. Sawilowsky (b. 1954) is Professor of Educational Statistics and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he has won many teaching and research awards. He was awarded the 1985 Florida Educational Research Association & 1986 American Educational Research Association State/Regions Distinguished Paper Award, titled "The Rank Transform", with co-author R. Clifford Blair. Sawilowsky's Ph.D. is from the University of South Florida (1985). He is the 2008 President of the American Educational Research Association SIG/Educational Statisticians.

Sawilowsky is the second most prolific currently active doctoral dissertation advisor (i.e., major professor) listed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project. With 83 doctoral dissertations, he is currently ranked 6th among 122,000 doctoral level mathematicians and statisticians since the year 1610 C.E., which is approximately the beginning of the genealogy’s database.[1] He has also served as advisor for 21 Master's theses. Notable for this discipline, approximately half of his graduate students are female and one-fourth are African American.

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[edit] Contributions to the statistical literature

Sawilowsky is the founder and editor of the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods,[2] which is a peer-reviewed open access journal. It provides an outlet for (1) development of new statistical tests or procedures and the comparison of existing statistical tests or procedures using computer-intensive Monte Carlo simulation, bootstrap, jackknife, or resampling methods, (2) development of nonparametric, robust statistics, permutation statistics, exact, and approximate randomization methods, and (3) applications of computer programming related to statistical algorithms, pseudo-random number generators, simulation techniques, and self-contained executable code to carry out new or interesting statistical methods.

Sawilowsky is the author of an innovative introductory statistics textbook that presents statistical methods via Monte Carlo simulation methods, and the editor and contributor of two chapters of a book on the statistical analysis of real data as it applies to the social and behavioral sciences.[3] He has also published over a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. The topics are on quantifying Type I error (false positive) rates of parametric statistics when their underlying assumptions have been violated; demonstration of the superior comparative statistical power properties of nonparametric rank statistics; and the development of new nonparametric, permutation, exact, and robust statistics. A common theme throughout his publications is the utility of Monte Carlo simulation methods for solving statistical problems, particularly for real, small (N < 50) data sets, which are intractable via mathematical methods.

Sawilowsky also authored 17 entries in statistics encyclopedias,[4][5] and is the co-author of a self-determination standardized assessment battery for a curriculum for children with and without disabilities.[6] He has published extensively on applied problems in psychometrics (Classical test theory), experimental design, and program evaluation.

[edit] Simultaneous career

After graduating from the Rabbinical College of America (1979), Sawilowsky was the emissary of the Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to Pinellas County, Florida. He also obtained a rabbinical degree from Yeshivas Pirchei Shoshanim[7] (2004) in Jerusalem, Israel, after having studied with the first group of students ever to receive strictly Orthodox Rabbinical ordination curricula on the laws of the Jewish Sabbath delivered via e-mail.[8][9]

Sawilowsky is the author of a comprehensive textbook written in an innovative dialogue format for preparing food and other matters related to the kitchen for the Sabbath.[10] It is based on the Talmud, Code of Jewish Law (Shulchan Aruch), and Ashkenaz, Sephardi, and Chabad customs.

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  1. ^ [1]Mathematics Genealogy Extrema Page. Notes: The listing includes 1st advisor and 2nd advisor.
  2. ^ [2]Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
  3. ^ [3] IAP-Information Age Publishing
  4. ^ [4]Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
  5. ^ [5]Encyclopedia of Behavioral Statistics
  6. ^ [6] The Self-determination Knowledge Scale by Field, Hoffman, and Sawilowsky, published by ProEd, Inc., is one of five instruments in the assessment battery.
  7. ^ [7]Pirchei Shoshanim
  8. ^ [8]Shema Yisrael Torah Learning Network
  9. ^ [9]Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly
  10. ^ Sawilowsky, Shlomo S. (2007). Making the Shabbos kitchen. (With editorial assistance by Yechiel Conway.) Lakewood, NJ: Pirchei Shoshanim. ISBN 978-0-9740236-7-0