The ASA’s Committee on International Relations in Statistics and Statistics Without Borders came together in the spring of 2022 to engage statisticians and data scientists based in different parts of the world and provide them with new educational opportunities.
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Staff Spotlight: Christina Bonner
Meet the ASA’s membership marketing coordinator and advertising manager, Christina Bonner, a Wake Forest University graduate and Bethesda, Maryland, native.
Empower Progress: Donate on ASA Giving Day
Giving Day is a day when members and friends of the ASA come together to make a lasting impact so the ASA can provide programs leading to a world that relies on data and statistical thinking to drive discovery and inform decisions.
SDSS to Bridge Gap Between Statistics, Data Science in June
The Symposium on Data Science and Statistics shines a light on the intersection of data science and statistics and covers a broad range of interests and applications.
JSM Session Touches on Equity
Sunghee Lee, Claire McKay Bowen, and Amanda Coston discussed racial bias, privacy concerns, and the fairness or unfairness of predictive algorithms at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Honors Top Statisticians
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honored four statisticians at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto, Canada, on August 9. These awards are jointly sponsored by the COPSS founding partner members: American Statistical Association; Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Eastern and Western regions of the International Biometric Society; and Statistical Society of Canada.
WNAR Session Explores Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry in Statistics
The International Biometrics Society Western North American Region meeting recently featured an invited session, titled “Considerations and Best Practices for Using Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry in Different Areas of Statistics and Data Science Research,” organized and chaired by Maricela Cruz and Audrey Hendricks.
Pathways to Promotions Webinar Addresses Burnout
In May, the ASA Pathways to Promotions Committee of the Statistical Consulting Section invited Tara Maddala and Sally Morton to speak as part of their webinar series. Maddala and Morton shared their perspectives, experiences, and methods for identifying and addressing burnout.
Q&A Offers Additional Funding Insight
To strengthen the connection between the statistical community and National Science Foundation, we continue the series introduced in the May 2023 issue that poses questions to NSF program officers and awardees. This month, the NSF Statistics Program Directors take a closer look at funding research proposals.
Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and Statisticians
AI has required substantial statistical input along its entire developmental path. Here is an overview of major statistical concepts and methods integral to AI and the statisticians involved in their development.