Joseph Hilbe

Joseph Hilbe
Joseph Hilbe
Born	December 30, 1944 (1944-12-30) Los Angeles, California, United States
Fields	statistician and mathematician
Institutions	University of Hawaii Arizona State University Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Known for	negative binomial regression logistic regression astrostatistics
Notable awards	Fellow, American Statistical Association Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (ISI)

Joseph Michael Hilbe (born 30 December 1944) is a American statistician and philosopher, a two-time national champion track & field athlete, and Olympic Games official. He is author of several popular texts on statistical modeling, and is founding chair of the ISI astrostatistics committee and Network.

Hilbe is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, an adjunct professor of statistics at Arizona State University (since 1992), and a Solar System Ambassador with NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, for which he is founding chair of both the astrostatistics committee. and of the International Astrostatistics Network. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Hilbe has made a number of contributions to the fields of count response models and logistic regression. He authored several standard textbooks in statistical modeling, including Logistic Regression Models (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009) and two editions of Negative Binomial Regression (Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2011). These and his other texts, book chapters and encyclopedia articles are listed below (Publications).

Life and Works

Born in Los Angeles, California, 30 Dec 1944, son of Rader John Hilbe and Nadyne Anderson Hilbe, Hilbe was raised in Arcadia, CA, attended three years of high school at Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley, CA, before graduating from Paradise, CA high school in 1962. Hilbe attended California State University, Chico, from where he graduated in 1968 with a degree in philosophy. Hilbe studied for his doctorate in philosophy at U.C.L.A. where he was a graduate reader for visiting professor and Nobel Laureate Fredrick von Hayek and personal assistant to Rudolf Carnap, one of the founders of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivism.

Hilbe secured a position at the University of Hawaii, where he retired as an emeritus professor of philosophy in 1990. During this time he authored several texts in philosophy and logic. In 1988 he earned a doctorate in statistics (applied mathematics, U.C.L.A.) and in 1990 was hired by HCFA to develop statistical and data management tools for the study of Medicare data.

Hilbe served as the founding editor of the Stata Technical Bulletin (predecessor to The Stata Journal) from 1991 to 1993, for which he developed a variety of statistical software commands, including the first generalized linear models (GLM) program having a negative binomial regression family (1993). The negative binomial family is now incorporated into the GLM routines of all major commercial statistical software. Hilbe is regarded as having popularized negative binomial regression, particularly in the disciplines of biostatistics and health outcomes analysis. It is now a standard method used for modeling overdispersed count data. Hilbe's 2007 text, Negative Binomial Regression, was the first text specifically devoted to the model and its many variations.

In 1992 Hilbe was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Statistics in the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. In 2007 he changed departmental affiliations and is currently associated with the School of Social and Family Dynamics. Hilbe served in several corporate positions during the 1990s, including the positions of lead statistician for Genentech's noted National Registry for Myocardial Infarctions (NRMI-2;1996–97) and lead statistician for Hoffman-La Roche's Canadian National Registry for Cardiovascular Disease (FASTRAK;1997–99). During this period Hilbe played an important role in the formation of the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, serving as a member of its initial executive committee and as a member of the founding scientific organizing committee (1995) for the International Conferences on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), which has continuously been held on a biannual basis. Hilbe was also 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.

Hilbe's long term interest in astronomy and meteorites led to his selection in 2006 as a Solar System Ambassador with NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA commencing January 2007. In 2008 Hilbe initiated the International Statistical Institute's (ISI) astrostatistics interest group. In December 2009, the ISI Council approved the creation of an astrostatistics committee and network with Hilbe as inaugural chair. Now titled the ISI International Astrostatistics Network, it is the first worldwide association of astrostatisticians. Its goal is to enhance collaboraton between astrophysists and statisticians, with an aim of enabling researchers to better understand and interpret astronomical data.

In 2009 Hilbe, Hilbe received the Distinguished Alumnus award from California State University, Chico. Two years before he was inducted into the Chico State Athletic Hall of Fame. He is the only graduate of the university to receive both awards. In 2010 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. Hilbe was married to Cheryl Swisher (1984) in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has four children.

Athletics

Known as Joe Hilbe when involved with athletics, Hilbe won the National AAU Pentathlon Championships in 1968 and 1978. He was also listed in the Track & Field News World List rankings in the 100 yards (9.4, 1967) and 400 meters (45.9, 1965). Hilbe set Hawaii state records in the 100 meters (10.40, 1973) and the Javelin (257'7"), which is still the recognized state mark. Hilbe served as National Chair for AAU Girl's Junior Olympic Track & Field from 1979–1982, and was Head Women's Track & Field coach at the University of Hawaii from 1979 to 1985. His foremost athletes were Gwen Loud, 1984 NCAA Division 1 Long Jump Champion (6.72/22'5¾") and a member of the U.S. team to the first International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Helsinki, 1983, and Gwen Gardner, second at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials 400 meters, earning a berth on the Olympic team that boycotted the Moscow Olympic Games. As assistant men's coach at the University of Hawaii (1973-1977), Hilbe coached Terry Albritton, who broke the Shot Put world record (21.85/71'8½") in 1976, and won numerous AAU and NCAA titles. Hilbe was elected to serve as a U.S. team coach and manager during the 1980s for several major competitions in the U.S., Australia/New Zealand, the Caribbean, and in Europe.

Hilbe was a member of the founding committee that formed the National Track & Field Officials Association in 1977. He 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, WA.

Publications: Books

• Hilbe, Joseph M., Negative Binomial Regression, Second Edition Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2011) ISBN 978-0-521198158
• Muenchen, R.A. and J.M. Hilbe, R for Stata Users, New York: Springer (2010) ISBN 9781441913173
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Logistic Regression Models, Boca Raton,FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (2009) ISBN 9781420075755
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Solutions Manual for Logistic Regression Models, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC (2009) ISBN 9781439820667
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Negative Binomial Regression, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2007) ISBN 9780521857727
• Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe, Generalized Linear Models and Extensions, Second Edition, College Station, TX: Stata Press (2007) ISBN 9781597180146
• Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe, Generalized Estimating Equations, London: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (2003) ISBN 9781584883074
• Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe, Generalized Linear Models and Extensions, College Station, TX: Stata Press (2001) ISBN 1881228606
• Hilbe, Joseph, Stata Technical Bulletin Reprints, Volume 2, (editor) Stata Press (1993) ISBN 188122807X
• Hilbe, Joseph, Stata Technical Bulletin Reprints, Volume 1, (editor) Stata Press (1992) ISBN 1881228053
• Hilbe, Joseph, Sentential Logic, Educational Services Pub. Co. (1983)
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Fundamentals of Conceptual Analysis,Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt (1977) ISBN 084031759X
• Hilbe, Joseph, Philosophical Foundations of Law, Educational Services Pub. Co. (1973)
• Hilbe, J.M., Experiencing Philosophy, Educational Services Pub. Co. (1970)

Publications: Major Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Articles

• Hilbe, Joseph M., Logistic Regression, StatProb: The Encyclopedia Sponsored by Statistics and Probability Societies (2010).
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Modeling Count Data, StatProb: The Encyclopedia Sponsored by Statistics and Probability Societies (2010).
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Generalized Linear Models, StatProb: The Encyclopedia Sponsored by Statistics and Probability Societies (2010),.
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Logistic Regression in M. Lovric (editor), International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, New York: Springer (2010). ISBN 978-3-642-04897-5
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Modeling Count Data in M. Lovric (editor), International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, New York: Springer (2010). ISBN 978-3-642-04897-5
• Hilbe, Joseph M., Generalized Linear Models in M. Lovric (editor), International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, New York: Springer (2010). ISBN 978-3-642-04897-5
• Hilbe, Joseph M , Statistical Software for the Social Sciences, in Kolenikov, S., L A. Thombs, and D. Steinley, (Eds), Statistics in the Social Sciences: Current Methodological Developments, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. pp. 175–189.(2010)
• Hilbe, J.M., G. Miner, and R. Nisbet, Astro-Statistics: Data Mining of SkyLab Project: Hubble Telescope Star and Galaxy Data, Tutorial SS, in Nisbet, R, J. Elder, and G. Miner (Eds), Handbook of Statistical Analysis & Data Mining Applications, New York:Elsevier (2009),ISBN 9780123747655
• Hilbe,J.M. and J.W. Hardin, Generalized Estimating Equations for Longitudinal Panel Analysis in S. Menard (Editor), Handbook of Longitudinal Research: Design, Measurement, and Analysis across the Social Sciences, London, UK: Academic Press/Elsevier (2007).
• Hilbe, Joseph and William Greene, Count Response Regression Models, in C.R. Rao, J.P. Miller, and D.C.Rao (Editors), Handbook of Statistics, Vol 27: Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, London, UK: North Holland/Elsevier (2007).
• Holmes, J.D., J. Rohn, and J. Hilbe, Informatics and Software Applications for Data Analyses in Van Beneden, C. and N. Mikanatha, (editors), Infectious Disease Surveillance, London: Blackwell (2007).
• Hardin, J.W. and J.M. Hilbe (2007). "Generalized Estimating Equations" in Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials, New York: Wiley & Son Pub.
• Hilbe, Joseph M., The Coevolution of Statistics and Hz. In S. Sawilowsky (ed.),Real Data Analysis, American Educational Research Association, SIG/Educational Statisticians: Information Age Publishing (2006).
• Hamilton, L. and J. Hilbe Statistical Analysis Using Stata, in R. Stine & J. Fox (Editors), Statistical Computing Environments for Social Research, Sage Publishing Co. (1997).
• Hilbe, J. and B. Turlach, Generalized Linear Models, in W. Haerdle, S. Klinke, B Turlach (Editors), XploRe: An interactive Statistical Computing Environment, Springer-Verlag (1995).

See also

• Stata
• Statistics
• The American Statistician
• American Statistical Association
• Royal Statistical Society
• International Statistical Institute
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics