This free meeting was conducted virtually and welcomed more than 140 researchers and trainees for a two-day event that addressed a variety of biostatistics and data science topics.

The ASA’s Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter, department of biostatistics at The University of Kansas Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation are pleased to announce the symposium Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods will take place April 18–19, 2013.

The ASA’s Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter recently cooperated with area universities to induct 35 students into Mu Sigma Rho, the national honor society for statistics.
Any group of statisticians at a nonacademic institution or comprising a chapter or section of a statistical society may apply to be an affiliate chapter of Mu Sigma Rho. Since most of the universities in the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter’s area do not have enough students to establish their own chapters and all ASA chapters are automatically affiliate chapters, the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter asked universities in the area …