Statisticians, biostatisticians, and mental health researchers discussed the impending statistical challenges of mental health research during the Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health in June.
Christopher Schmid Talks Health Statistics
Christopher Schmid is professor in and chair of the department of biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a former chair of the Health Policy Statistics Section.
Leading Large … or My Dinner with Dennis
This month’s column profiles a statistician who, in every sense of the word, has spent his life leading large: Dennis Gillings.
North Carolina Chapter Holds Joint Socials with SAMSI Workshops
The North Carolina Chapter coordinated two joint socials in conjunction with the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute’s 2018 program opening workshops in August.
JSM 2019 Invited Program Set; Other Avenues for Contributing Open
The Program Committee has constructed the invited program for the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings, but there are still plenty of ways to participate.
Karl E. Peace Award Recognizes Work of Patrick Ball
The American Statistical Association’s 2018 Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society recognized the work of leading human rights mathematician Patrick Ball of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.
$1k Scholarships Available for Statistics, Biostatistics Students
The Biopharmaceutical Section will offer a scholarship of $1,000 to each of three students in 2019.
2018 Causality in Statistics Education Prize Winners Announced
The American Statistical Association awarded the sixth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf for their open-access textbook, Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms.
Latest Issue of CHANCE Devoted to Sports
Children across the globe are fascinated with sports statistics. For many, this fascination never goes away! That’s why the editor devoted an entire issue of CHANCE to sports.
1000 Girls, 1000 Futures: New York Academy of Sciences’ Mentoring Initiative
New York Academy of Sciences’ 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures encourages women ages 13–18 interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to pursue STEM careers through skill development and mentoring.