A privacy policy should focus on ensuring the process and procedural actions to protect information are followed, regardless of whether personally identifiable information exists in a file. Members of the ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Committee provide guidance for developing such a policy here.
Journal Highlights
Significance Highlights: December Issue Covers Thorny Issues
The December 2018 issue of Significance is out in digital format. It explores data ethics, extreme floods, and other thorny issues.
New Sections Added to Journal of Statistics Education
Jeff Witmer will serve as editor of the Journal of Statistics Education for the next three years and plans to add at least two sections to the journal: Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences and Teaching Data Science.
Significance Explores Statistics in Court
The latest issue of Significance features articles about gerrymandering, epidemiology on trial, and dealing with ethical dilemmas.
November Issue of The American Statistician Has Something for Everyone
The November 2018 issue of The American Statistician features 13 articles and one letter to the editor that span a range of interesting methodology and application areas.
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.
Call for Nominations: Editor of CHANCE
The American Statistical Association invites nominations and applications for the position of executive editor of CHANCE.
The American Statistician Highlights: August Issue Spans Methodology, Applications
The August 2018 issue of The American Statistician features eight articles and two letters to the editor that span a wide range of interesting methodology and application areas.
Special Issue Looks at Statistics Behind Defense and National Security
Six articles in this special issue of CHANCE magazine discuss various aspects of national security and how statistics is playing a key role.
Significance Spotlights Arithmetic Mean in December Issue
The December 2017 issue of Significance is now available in print and digital formats. The cover story tells the history of the arithmetic mean.