The Biopharmaceutical Section hosted a webinar discussing the challenges and opportunities that come from working in a small biotech company and highlighted the benefits of joining the Statisticians in Small Biotech community.
Member News
Practical Significance Take Two—Talking Data Science in Science with Founding Editor-in-Chief
The ASA recently added the open-access journal Data Science in Science to its portfolio of publications and Practical Significance co-hosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein interviewed the journal’s founding editor, David Matteson, during a recent podcast episode. If you missed it, you can tune in here.
ASA Member Awarded Penn State Alumni Achievement Award
ASA member Jemar R. Bather was awarded the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award for his extraordinary professional accomplishments.
SRMS to Host JSM Short Course
The Survey Research Methods Section is sponsoring the course Data Integration in Surveys and Clinical Trials: Methods and Software at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Submissions Sought for Daniel H. Wagner Prize
The Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research is awarded annually by INFORMS to recognize and reward quality and coherence of analysis used in practice.
Scholarship Offers $1,000 for Government Statisticians
Awarded jointly by the ASA’s Government Statistics and Social Statistics sections, this scholarship encourages promising young statisticians to consider a career in government statistics.
Section on Statistical Computing Hosts Second Annual Mini-Symposium
The nearly five-hour program kicked off with opening remarks from ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein and 2023 section chair Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and included a keynote speech, data jamboree, lighting talks, and panel discussion.
Nominations Open for Health Science Awards
Annually, the Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences Section offers the Young Investigator Award, Outstanding Teaching Award, Distinguished Achievement Award, and Best Contributed Paper at JSM Award. Nominations are currently open for the first three.
People News: Bin Yu and Rebecca Barter
ASA members Bin Yu of UC Berkeley and Rebecca Barter of Utah University Medical School recently released the open-access version of their new book, Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making.
Enter Data-Driven Stories in Significance Contest
Are you an early-career statistician or data scientist with a talent for telling data-driven stories in an entertaining and thought-provoking way? If so, enter the competition for the 2024 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing.