The American Statistical Association and American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) recently launched a new interdisciplinary journal, the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology (JSSAM). The first issue is scheduled to publish in July 2013.

Sara Murphy, ASA-SIAM series acquisitions editor, explains the marketing techniques the series used to promote books.

Amstat News invited Adam Sieminski of the U.S. Energy Information Administration to respond to the following questions so readers could learn more about him and the agency he leads.

Alan B. Krueger, White House Council of Economic Advisers chair, gave the President’s Invited Lecture at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, California. Read on for a version of his talk.

Victor Morin talks about his career path and the many turns he took along the way, from the Navy’s Officer Candidate School to the White House to Boeing to GE to Amazon.com to Ecolab Research Center.