MRS Silver Medal

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Cataldo Zuccaro for Statistical alchemy – the misuse of factor scores in linear regression.

Cataldo’s paper provides a readable, well-thought-through, written and illustrated discussion outlining the pitfalls of using multivariate techniques and should be required reading to the growing number of practitioners turning to these methods without the necessary background in how to deploy such analyses.

Finalists

Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 

Boalong Ma, Beijing Institute of Technology, Lin Zhang, Truman State University,
Fei Li,Tsinghua University, and Gao Wang, China Europe International Business School

Saahier Parker, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa,
Belinda Don, Kantar Health Oncology Centre, and Kyle McLoughlin, Synovate Germany