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The 2007 of the American Statistical Association is to be made to and , for their package. The Chambers Award aims to encourage innovative and well-designed statistical software, and is awarded annually to one project worldwide.

The open-source gnm package is published as an add-on to , through the . It provides extensive facilities for specifying, fitting and interpreting a large class of statistical models, the generalized nonlinear models, its generality being achieved through the innovative, unified use of over-parameterized representations of models. Applications of the software are in many different research fields, including the social sciences, health sciences, agriculture, etc. A detailed manual, Generalized Nonlinear Models in R: An Overview of the gnm Package () gives many worked examples from different fields.

The initial development of gnm was funded by ESRC through a Professorial Fellowship, and the first public release was in 2005. Ongoing work is also funded by ESRC, as part of the .

Heather will travel to Salt Lake City in August to receive the award at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings.