The 2012 National Conference on Health Statistics, to be held August 6–8, will emphasize current National Center for Health Statistics data activities and their relationship to today’s critical health issues.

A new section that combines statistics and measurement in psychology and education, tentatively titled Statistics and Measurement in Psychology and Education, is being considered. Read on to find out about the focus of this section and how you can help get it approved.

Amstat News invited Mary Bohman of the Economic Research Service to respond to a few questions so readers can learn more about her and the agency she leads.

The Collaborative Research Center, “Statistical Modelling of Nonlinear Dynamic Processes,” is organizing an international workshop, titled “New Developments in Econometrics and Time Series,” to be held in Rome September 10–11.

Here are the highlights of the May issue of Technometrics.