Keith Crank, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager, provides comprehensive salary information for statistics faculty.
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The Statistician’s Role in an Integrated Health Care System
The need to improve the effectiveness of clinical care delivery is greater than ever. Here, Intermountain Healthcare clinicians Karen Valentine, Roberta James, and Cempaka Martial discuss a statistician’s role in an integrated health care system.
Biostatisticians: Do You Know What They Do?
Rebecca Shackelton Piccolo, project manager/biostatistician at New England Research Institutes, explains the role of a biostatistician.
Symposium Planned in Honor of Lagakos
There will be a one-day symposium on October 22 in honor of Stephen Lagakos, who died in an accident in October of 2009. Discussion will reflect Lagakos’s interests, including HIV prevention, biostatistical education in the 21st century, and clinical trials.
Who Wants to Be a Biostatistician (or Environmental Statistician, or Social Science Statistician, or …)?
In his column this month, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager Keith Crank discusses funding for training biostatisticians.
Counting Statisticians: How Many of Us Are There?
Keith Crank, ASA’s Research and Graduate Education Manager tries to answer the question: How many biostatisticians are there worldwide and how many statisticians are working in the United States?
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.
Biostatistics Funding Looking Good at NIH
In his column this month, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager Keith Crank, discusses the funding for biostatistics programs and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Biostatistics Internship Opportunities Available
A 2001 ad hoc meeting of biostatistics leaders from academia, industry, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) addressed a national shortage of trained biostatisticians. In response to the recommendation that summer internships “be supported for undergraduate students to expose them to biostatistics and bioinformatics,” the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) funded three annual summer internship programs, called the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS).
Career Video ‘Trial’ Sees First Positive Result
In an effort led by section members Jeremy Jokinen and Steve Gulyas, a number of section members have been working with Creative Street Media Group to develop a web site aimed at attracting high-school and college students to biostatistics.