In preparation for the next Health Policy Statistics conference, which will take place in January 2020, we’re running a series of interviews about previous HPSS award winners. Last year, Anirban Basu was awarded the mid-career excellence award and James O’Malley interviewed him.
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COPSS Honors Four with Awards
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession.
2019 Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) Workshop Attracts a Dozen Teachers
The full-day workshop is designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds.
Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program Celebrates 10 Years
Speakers, mentors, statisticians, and data scientists participated in the 10th anniversary of the program, which is geared toward students and early- to mid-career professionals from underrepresented groups.
Diverse Voices Heard at SDSS 2019
Kelly McConville reflects on how excited and engaged participants were during this year’s Symposium on Data Science and Statistics.
An Interview With Constantine Gatsonis
In preparation for the next conference, which will take place in January 2020, we’re running a series of interviews and articles about previous Health Policy Statistics Section award winners. This month, we focus on Constantine Gatsonis, the Henry Ledyard Professor of Biostatistics and director of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health.
Invited Session Proposals Sought for JSM 2020
It is time to start planning the 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings. To that end, the 2020 Program Committee is soliciting proposals for invited sessions.
Proposals, Abstracts Sought for ICES VI
Organizers for the International Conferences on Establishment Statistics invite you to submit proposals and abstracts for a topic-contributed session by August 15. Submission for contributed and speed sessions opens October 16.
In Anticipation of ICHPS … A Conversation with Long-Term Excellence Award Winner Don Hedeker
Juned Siddique interviewed Don Hedeker in 2015 in honor of Don being awarded the Long-Term Excellence Award.
Late-Breaking Session Focuses on Future of Statistics
For this year’s JSM late-breaking session, members of the Committee on Meetings chose a panel session reporting on the NSF workshop, “Statistics at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in the Data Science Era.”