A letter to the editor from Jay Devore, a professor in the department of statistics at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

As President Barack Obama finishes his first year in office, the state of the economy, climate change, health care reform, and the continuing war in Afghanistan all vie for center stage in U.S. politics, and statistics has something to contribute to each of those issues. However, there is an issue that is not as prominent, but just as important, that deserves the attention of the statistical community: the need for reformation of U.S. policy and protocol concerning foreign assistance.

Four winning and four honorable mention projects were selected for the 2009 Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition, sponsored by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education has collaborated with the Science Education Resource Center project to connect activities for statistics classes with details of different pedagogical methods. Here are some examples of these methods.

This article is in response to the letter written by Allan Rossman, Roxy Peck, Christine Franklin, Brad Hartlaub, and Richard Scheaffer that was published in the November, 2009, issue of Amstat News.

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education will host two pre-conference workshops on January 12 in San Francisco.

Japan is second only to the United States as a consumer of pharmaceutical products. This notwithstanding, statistical contributions to clinical trials and clinical development were not well-recognized in Japan until the ICH-E9 guideline “Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials” was implemented in 1998.

In reaction to Xiao-Li Meng’s article, “Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery)”

View this slideshow of photos from the 2009 JSM in Washington, DC.

Michelle Quinlan was this year’s Gertrude Cox 5k fun run women’s winner, with a time of 20:41:00. The men’s winner was Joel O’Hair, with a time of 17:05:00. This year marked the 20th anniversary of the fun run, which takes place at the Joint Statistical Meetings.