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[1 Jan 2017 | Comments Off on Highlights of the November Board of Directors Meeting | 1,229 views]

Highlights from the final ASA Board of Directors meeting of 2016.

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[1 Nov 2016 | Comments Off on Department Chairs Gather at ASA to Discuss Pressing Education Issues | 1,465 views]

More than 40 department chairs from more than 25 states attended an ASA-hosted workshop that featured themes on workforce demands and needs, data science education and research, mentoring and junior faculty, and federal funding.

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[1 Oct 2016 | Comments Off on Temple Renames Department to Reflect Discipline’s Evolution | 796 views]

Temple University’s Department of Statistics has been renamed the department of statistical science to reflect the discipline’s evolution.

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[1 Oct 2016 | Comments Off on Members Give Books to Library of Alexandria | 696 views]

“Your gifts will help many improve research literacy in the world,” Ronald LaPorte said about the generous donations of statistics books to improve statistical literacy in developing countries.

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[1 Oct 2016 | Comments Off on Proposals Sought for 2017 USCOTS | 697 views]

Planning has begun for the next United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, which will be held at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in May and hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.

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[1 Oct 2016 | Comments Off on ASA Launches Redesigned Website | 631 views]
ASA Launches Redesigned Website

The aim of the ASA’s newly redesigned website is to highlight the contributions made by members and encourage the public to learn more about our growing and dynamic discipline.

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[1 Oct 2016 | Comments Off on Conference Links Statisticians, Data Analysts, Astronomers | 607 views]

Carnegie Mellon University hosted more than 120 researchers in June for Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, bringing together experts in statistical methods and machine learning with astronomers and cosmologists to discuss pressing inference problems facing this data-rich field.

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[1 Oct 2016 | Comments Off on Abstracts Wanted for Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference | 741 views]

A conference devoted to nonclinical biostatistics—a vibrant and challenging application area in biopharmaceutical research—will take place June 12–14, 2017, at the Fiber Optics Building at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.

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[1 Jul 2016 | 3 Comments | 5,471 views]
Reproducible Research in <em>JASA</em>

JASA is leading the effort to establish publication standards that improve research quality and reproducibility.

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[1 Jun 2016 | Comments Off on Send Books, Combat ‘Stataphobia’ | 631 views]

Donate your little-used statistics books and lectures to the Research Methods Library of Alexandria (RMLA) in Egypt to improve statistical literacy in developing countries.