The Biometrics Section is looking for abstract submissions for contributed and topic-contributed papers to be presented during JSM 2010, as well as nominations for the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award.
Biometrics
Section Readies for Spring Meeting, JSM
The Biometrics Section looks forward to strong representation at the ENAR Spring Meeting. Additionally, section leadership readies for JSM 2010 by calling for session organizers and award applications.
Business Meeting Covers Much Ground
The Biometrics Section recently held its annual business committee meeting during JSM in Washington, DC. Dan Heitjan, 2009 section chair, welcomed members and guests and introduced Steve Pierson, the ASA’s director of science policy. Pierson described efforts to develop a series of one-page documents for policymakers called “Statistical Significance” that underscore significant contributions statisticians have made in key areas such as health care, economic productivity, and national security. Pierson said he views his role, in part, as educating the ASA membership about ways to influence science policy and invited suggestions for ASA science policy action from section members.
Award Winners Announced, JSM 2010 Preparations Begin
Sonja Greven, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at The Johns Hopkins University, was recently named the winner of the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. She received a $1,000 award for her paper, “On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models,” which she presented at JSM in Washington, DC.