Every five years, the U.S. Census of Agriculture enumerates the characteristics of farms and farmers, and planning is underway for the 2017 census. To ensure it does not systematically miss women or new/beginning farmers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service called for an expert panel review and invited public comment. Read on to find out what they learned.
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Statistical Significance Documents on Agriculture and Sports Released
Two new Statistical Significance documents were released in January to add to the seven created in 2009.
International Conference on Data Mining Planned
The department of statistics at Rajshahi University in Bangladesh will host the International Conference on Statistical Data Mining for Bioinformatics, Health, Agriculture, and Environment. The objective of the conference is to build an active relationship between academic statisticians-mathematicians and scientists from other disciplines who use statistics and mathematics extensively.
Meet NASS Administrator Cynthia Clark
Amstat News invited Cynthia Clark, director of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, to respond to a few questions so readers could learn more about her and the agency she leads.