The ASA Cleveland Chapter will host the 27th seminar in a series called Tools for Regaining the Competitive Edge.
Chapter News
Connecticut Chapter to Host Mini-Conference
The 11th Annual Connecticut Chapter Mini-Conference, “Maximizing Information from Clinical Trials,” will be held March 27 on the Bristol-Myers Squibb campus in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter Announces 6th Annual Symposium
The ASA’s Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter, department of biostatistics at The University of Kansas Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation are pleased to announce the symposium Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods will take place April 18–19, 2013.
North Carolina Chapter Organizes International Conference
This past October, the North Carolina Chapter of the ASA organized the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The conference featured diverse academic sessions, including wild fires management, environment, anthropology, medicine, insurance, weather modeling, and network security. Highlighted were the research, teaching, and service contributions of many ASA members in North Carolina.
Chapter Members Invited to Speak About Careers in Statistics
AP Statistics teachers at Menlo Atherton High School recently invited several San Francisco Bay Area Chapter members to speak to students about careers in statistics. Chapter volunteers visited the school for the first time in 2011 and were invited back to offer a broader perspective. View photos and learn more about the event.
Chapter Inducts 35 into Mu Sigma Rho
The ASA’s Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter recently cooperated with area universities to induct 35 students into Mu Sigma Rho, the national honor society for statistics. Any group of statisticians at a nonacademic institution or comprising a chapter or section of a statistical society may apply to be an affiliate chapter of Mu Sigma Rho. Since most […]
Chapters Team to Award Science Fair Projects in Michigan
Continuing a two-decades–long tradition as a joint special awards team at the Southeast Michigan Science Fair, nine members of the Detroit and Ann Arbor ASA chapters judged projects on March 9. The team gave out three levels of special awards for projects exhibiting varying levels of use of statistics: certificates of recognition, certificates of merit, and awards of excellence.
Chicago Chapter to Host Conference on Political Election Results
The ASA’s Chicago Chapter is hosting a conference on May 4, titled “America the Predictable? Different Approaches to Understanding and Forecasting Political Election Results.”
Rochester and Syracuse Chapters Organize Mini-Conference
The Rochester and Syracuse chapters of the American Statistical Association are jointly organizing the first ASA upstate mini-conference, to take place March 31 at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Southern California Chapter Plans Bayesian Analysis Workshop
The Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association will present an applied statistics workshop on Bayesian analysis March 24.