Discover how statistical ideas inform the design and implementation of biometric security systems and how estimates of dangerous space debris are produced—all in the June 2021 issue of Significance.
Additional Features
ASA Joins Two Largest Societies for Computing as CSAB Member
The American Statistical Association is now a full member of CSAB, joining the world’s two largest professional and technical societies for computing: the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society.
Committee Spotlight: ASA Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG)
Amstat News is spotlighting ASA committees and their activities. To start the series, we asked the ASA Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Committee Chair Fanni Natanegara and SPAIG Vice Chair Ying Ding to answer a few questions about SPAIG’s purpose and goals.
Podcast Series Brings Answers to Data Science Career Questions
The ASA is sponsoring a podcast series about careers in data science with Q&As for students and early-career professionals.
Panel Provides Insights on Real-World Evidence in Health Care
Real-world data (RWD) can come from a variety of sources, including claims, electronic health records, biobanks, genomics tests, and imaging modalities. Increasingly, it is coming from digital data through electronic health and mobile health modalities. Recent events have pushed innovation in the use of RWD to maximize the value of real-world evidence in an era of big data, data science, and artificial intelligence.
Something for Everyone in May Issue of TAS
The May 2021 issue of The American Statistician (TAS) is available online and features 13 articles across different sections of the journal. One of the benefits of ASA membership is free access to the online issues of TAS.
Rhyme Time
To celebrate last month’s National Limerick Day, Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso wrote a few original statistical limericks.
ASA Board Seeks Comments About Making Treasurer an Elected Member
At its April 2021 meeting, the ASA Board recommended changing the association’s bylaws to make the position of ASA Treasurer an elected position, thereby giving board voting rights to the treasurer. The board is seeking comments from ASA members on the proposed changes.
Highlights of the April 14–16, 2021, ASA Board of Directors Meeting
ASA President Rob Santos called to order the first 2021 meeting of the ASA Board on Wednesday, April 14. Here are the highlights.
A Story of COVID-19, Mentoring, and West Virginia
Learn about how data scientists have helped with different aspects of the COVID-19 response in West Virginia and how one key mentor played a role in this.