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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.