The Social Statistics and Government Statistics sections have together organized sessions covering a range of topics that are bound to whet the statistical appetites of section members. So as you navigate through all that Vancouver, British Columbia, has to offer, consider some of our meeting offerings in the form of invited sessions.
Section News
Recapping the Conference on Health Policy Statistics
Here are the highlights of the 2010 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics that took place in Washington, DC, in January.
Considering JSM Sessions and Roundtables
Quality and Productivity Section is sponsoring two invited sessions and four roundtables during the 2010 JSM.
Section Gears Up for 2010 JSM
The Biometrics Section is proud to sponsor one continuing education course and four invited sessions at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings.
Q&P Announces Short Course Offerings and Invited Program for JSM
At the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, the ASA Section on Quality and Productivity is sponsoring two invited sessions and three roundtable events.
Martha Gardner has organized a session titled “Statistical Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,” inviting speakers Ronald Snee, Geoff Vining, Bill Parr, and Roger Hoerl. These speakers will discuss how both the profession and those it serves may benefit from transitioning the view of statistics as a pure science to an engineering one. A panel including Douglas Montgomery, Peter Goos, and Rachel T. Johnson was invited by Dana Krueger to provide a discussion, “Future Developments in Experimental Design.”
Section Readies for 2010 Conferences
The Physical and Engineering Sciences Section of the ASA gets ready for several conferences in 2010 including the 17th Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology and the 27th Quality and Productivity Research Conference and JSM.
Hal Varian to Speak at the Economic Outlook Luncheon
This year’s speaker at the JSM Economic Outlook Luncheon will be Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, on the topic “Predicting the Present with Google Trends.”
Honors Go to Ash, Zaslavsky, and Elliott
The Health Policy Statistics Section presented its inaugural Mid-career Excellence Award and Long-term Excellence Award on January 21 during the keynote session of the Eighth International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC.
Arlene S. Ash of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Alan M. Zaslavsky of Harvard University received the section’s highest honor—the Long-term Excellence Award—recognizing their outstanding leadership and sustained contribution to the development and application of statistical methods in health-care policy and health services research, and for service to the section.
Section a Presence in Workshop and Meeting Sessions
The ENVR section hosts the workshop “Space-Time Statistics to Evaluate the Impacts of Climate on Health and Renewable Energy” October 14–16 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
FDA/DIA Statistics Forum
The FDA/DIA statistics forum will take place April 18–21 in Bethesda, Maryland. The forum provides a venue to discuss important statistical issues associated with the development and review of therapeutic drugs and biologics.