Phillip Kott

Phillip Kott earned his BS in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974. In 1975, Kott received his MA in Economics from Brown University. In 1978, Kott received his PhD in Mathematical Economics from Brown University at age 26. He was recruited as an economist by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in November 1978 and worked there until 1984 when he was hired by U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).[3] In 1987, Kott began working for the National Agricultural Statistics Service of USDA, where he remained until 2008; he briefly worked at the Census Bureau in 1990.

At the time of his retirement in 2008, Kott was the chief research statistician at NASS. He continued to work part-time at NASS through December 2010. Since January 2009, Kott has been a senior research statistician at Research Triangle Institute (RTI).[4]

In 1996, Dr. Kott was elected a Fellow of ASA. Kott has been an organizer of numerous conferences and sessions at national and international statistical organizations. He has also served as a representative to the Council of Chapters of ASA. He served as the president of the Washington Statistical Society from June 1996 to June 1997. In 1997, Kott was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Medal by American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics and the Environment. More recently, Kott received the Presidential Rank Award in 2007.[5]

In 2017, Kott earned the NISS Distinguished Service Award for his "extraordinary service that advances NISS and its mission".[6]

• Using calibration weighting (2006)
• One-sided coverage intervals (2009)
• Using calibration weighting (2010)