For the first time ever, a statistician was selected in the top five picks in the annual NFL player entry draft. Ezekiel “Ziggy” Ansah, a star defensive end at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, was chosen with the fifth overall pick in the NFL draft by the Detroit Lions April 25.
Members of the Washington Statistical Society served as expert judges for five regional science fairs in the Washington, DC, area.
In the February issue of Amstat News, John Bailer and others described an initiative undertaken in 2012 “to develop guidelines, framed as learning outcomes, for master’s degree programs in statistics and biostatistics that are responsive to the needs of stakeholders who employ such graduates.” Read about the recommendations from the group that were adopted by the ASA Board.
The Foundation for Open Access Statistics is a nonprofit public benefit corporation registered in California with a worldwide mission to promote free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics.
