Joseph Hilbe

Joseph Hilbe

Joseph Michael Hilbe (born 30 December 1944) is an American statistician and philosopher, founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association(IAA) and author of several influential texts on statistical modeling. Hilbe is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), for which he founded the ISI astrostatistics committee in 2009. Hilbe is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Full Member of the American Astronomical Society.

Hilbe has made a number of contributions to the fields of count response models and logistic regression. He authored several popular textbooks in statistical modeling, including Logistic Regression Models (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009) and two editions of Negative Binomial Regression (Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2011)., his most influential text. Hilbe is also editor-in-chief of the Springer Series in Astrostatistics, which began in 2011, is 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 is coordinating editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Predictive Analytics in Action, commencing in 2012. A listing of his books, book chapters and encyclopedia articles are listed below (Publications).

Hilbe was also a two-time national champion track & field athlete, a US team and NCAA Division 1 head coach, and Olympic Games official. He has also been chair of the ISI sports statistics committee since 2007.