James H. Ware
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Education
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut B.A. 1963 Mathematics
- Stanford University, Stanford, California M.S. 1965 Statistics
- Stanford University, Stanford, California Ph.D. 1969 Statistics
- "Dissertation: Regression when Both Variables are Subject to Error and the Ranks of Their Means are Known." Advisor: Bradley Efron
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Career
James Ware joined the Harvard School of Public Health faculty in 1979 after receiving his PhD in statistics from Stanford University and spending eight years as mathematical statistician at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. As Dean, he was involved with a number of controversial issues.
The annual James H. Ware Award is given to a graduating student or student team "from any department and program who have engaged in a practice opportunity or experience during their time at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health." There is also a James H. Ware Scholarship Fund.
He died of esophageal cancer on April 26, 2016. Flags were flown at half mast at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Honors
- Fellow, American Statistical Association (1987)
- Member, International Statistical Institute
- Past President, E.N.A.R. (Eastern North America Region), International Biometric Society
Additional
- Harvard Catalyst profile for James Hutchinson Ware, PhD
- History of the Harvard School of Public Health
- Ryan, L. A Conversation with Nan Laird
- Knox RA, A Harvard Study on Newborns Draws Fire, Boston Globe, August 7, 1989, p. 25. Archived May 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- NIH biosketch for James H. Ware Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine