Sandra Stinnet and collaborators, first published in The American Statistician, May 1990, Vol. 44, No. 2. bit.ly/1RoFROl Born January 13, 1900, in Dayton, Iowa, Gertrude M. Cox reflected the upbringing of the times and location. She was instilled with ethics, moral courage, and determination. This, combined with her grand dreams and the genius and […]
A Statistician's Life
Good Mentors Are All Around Us: Seek Them Out!
Anyone can be a mentor, however it takes hard work to train our future problemsolvers. A mentor is an excellent listener. He or she listens with the intent to understand and share experiences that the person being mentored can use. Here, Sastry Pantula, head of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation offers advice and shares ways to become a great mentor.
Getting a Job: What Distinguishes You?
Why Statistics? Why BLOG?
Short for weblog, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes a blog as a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and hyperlinks provided by the writer. Recently, there has been an outcropping of blogs about statistics, so Amstat News asked a few statistical bloggers how they got started in both statistics and blogging. Read their answers here.
Business/Industry Offers Dynamic Environment for Statisticians
The statistics profession has had a profound impact on such diverse areas as health care, the environment, conducting the census, and education. Perhaps less visible has been the significant effect statistics has had on business and industry—the private sector. Here, Roger Hoerl from GE illustrates how business and industry affords statistics students another viable career option.
Journey to a Career in Industry
A Statistician’s Life
ASA members are as diverse as the areas they study. In an effort to get to know our leading members better, we asked some of them to answer a few questions. Here, they tell us who inspired them and how they chose to be statisticians.