The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 poster and project competitions. First-place winners received $200, a plaque, a plaque for their school, and graphing calculators from Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $100 and a plaque; third-place winners received $50 and a plaque; and honorable mentions received certificates.
The competitions are directed by the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability. Information about the competitions—including entry forms, instructional webinars, and a rubric of how the posters and projects are judged—is available on the ASA Education website via the K–12 link.
Views and information from the writers of the Amstat News columns: Master’s Notebook, Science Policy, and Funding Opportunities
Last month, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager Keith Crank wrote about The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States, a recent report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). He expressed his disappointment with the report, especially with its authors’ failure to use data appropriately. This month, Crank brings up one more issue with the data and relates it to what’s going on in statistics and biostatistics.
The June 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Statistical Association features a diverse set of articles. Here are the highlights.
Highlights from volume 3, issue 4 of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, which features three prize-winning works.
Here are the highlights to the August 2010 issue of Technometrics, which opens with the feature article “Nonparametric Profile Monitoring by Mixed Effects Modeling” by Peihua Qiu, Changliang Zou, and Zhaojun Wang.
Since 1965, the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences has undertaken a comprehensive study of U.S. undergraduate programs in the mathematical sciences, with funding from the National Science Foundation and support from the mathematical sciences professional societies.
The Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research (PJSOR) is accepting papers describing the latest research and developments in statistics, operation research, and actuarial statistics. PJSOR is a peer-reviewed journal that is published two times per year.
Statistics Canada’s 2010 International Methodology Symposium, titled “Social Statistics: The Interplay Among Censuses, Surveys, and Administrative Data,” will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from October 26–29.
There will be a one-day symposium on October 22 in honor of Stephen Lagakos, who died in an accident in October of 2009. Discussion will reflect Lagakos’s interests, including HIV prevention, biostatistical education in the 21st century, and clinical trials.
This month’s member spotlight is on Grace O’Neill, a survey methodologist at the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the Statistics and Methods group.
Although statistics is a young discipline, it has grown to be an essential tool for all areas of human endeavor in the last century. Indeed, there is demand by government, industry, and academia throughout the world for statisticians to help in the decisionmaking process. Therefore, it is one of the aims of the C. R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS) to encourage talented young students to pursue statistics careers.
The twelfth Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program was hosted by North Carolina State University in June. Cofounded by Sylvia Bozeman of Spelman College and Rhonda Hughes of Bryn Mawr College, EDGE is an intensive four-week program designed to equip female college graduates with the tools they need to successfully complete graduate programs in the mathematical and statistical sciences.
The ASA and Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) recently partnered to publish the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, which has been a forum for scholars on the cutting edge of research in quantitative sports analysis since 2005. As a result of the partnership, ASA members will have free electronic access.
Sixteen members of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter chose Nolan Kamitaki from Waiakea High School in Hilo, Hawaii, as the winner of the ASA Council of Chapters prize for the best use of statistics at the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 poster and project competitions. First-place winners received $200, a plaque, a plaque for their school, and graphing calculators from Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $100 and a plaque; third-place winners received $50 and a plaque; and honorable mentions received certificates.
The competitions are directed by the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability. Information about the competitions—including entry forms, instructional webinars, and a rubric of how the posters and projects are judged—is available on the ASA Education website via the K–12 link.
