Sloka Iyengar, American Museum of Natural History; Carolina Franco, NORC at the University of Chicago; and Alexandra M. Schmidt, McGill University
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The American Statistical Association’s Committee on International Relations in Statistics and Statistics Without Borders, often referred to as SWB, came together in the spring of 2022 to engage statisticians and data scientists based in different parts of the world and provide them with new educational opportunities via a bimonthly webinar series that introduces a multitude of statistical topics.
The webinars, presented by experts in their fields, have reached more than 1,000 professionals and students globally, and participation is trending upward, with the last webinar drawing a record 460 attendees.
The sessions—in which speakers share real-world issues and problems in their fields—are geared toward a general audience with a background in statistics.
Committee chair Carolina Franco offered the first webinar, titled “An Introduction to Small Area Estimation (SAE),” in May of 2022. Throughout the remainder of that year, the webinar series built momentum as more people learned about it and additional topics were introduced. Shirin Golchi presented “An Introduction to Bayesian Inference,” Alexandra M. Schmidt presented “An Introduction to Spatial Statistics with Applications to Disease Mapping,” and Jennifer A. Hoeting presented “Deep Learning: Opening the Black Box.”
In 2023, the webinar series featured several new webinars, including the following:
- “Positioning Household Surveys for the Next Decade: Data Integration and Inclusion” by Talip Kilic and Papa Seck
- “Causal Inference in Statistics: Why, What, and How” by Erica Moodie
- “Introduction to Bayesian Modeling of Epidemics: From Population to Individual-Level Models” by Rob Deardon
- “An Overview of Some Methods for Statistical Analysis with Missing Data” by Rod Little
- “An Introduction to Time Series Analysis via Dynamic Linear Models” by Raquel Prado
The resources shared during these sessions, including the recordings and slides, are freely available.
Suggestions for potential topics can be sent to Alex Schmidt, Carolina Franco, or Statistics Without Borders.
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