Rob Santos believes statisticians are superheroes, but their superpowers are only as good as their underlying assumptions.
COVID-19 pandemic
BBSW 2020 Finds New Ways to Collaborate Virtually
While the pandemic prevented a face-to-face event in 2020, the Bay Area Biotech-Pharma Statistical Workshop held two virtual symposiums—both related to COVID-19.
Data for Good Can Drive COVID Vaccine Confidence
David Corliss says statisticians can help address the distrust of vaccines, a large challenge of this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SWB Volunteers Share Experiences, Rewards
Statistics Without Borders volunteers describe a well-rounded SWB experience and some of what they have learned.
BASS Goes Virtual
The 27th meeting of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS XXVII) will be held virtually September 9–10.
LGBTQ+ Advocacy Committee Engages in Good
The ASA is fortunate to have the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Committee. Jack Miller, the current chair, discusses the committee’s latest advocacy activities and how to get involved.
Pharma Executive Offers Thoughts About COVID-19
Dr. Amrit Ray, global president, R&D and Medical, Upjohn Division, Pfizer Inc., offers his thoughts about the COVID-19 pandemic and how to best protect yourself and your family.
ASA Members Stop the Presses with New Book About Disease Outbreaks
It’s not often statisticians get to shout, “Stop the presses,” but that’s what longtime ASA members Steve Rigdon and Ronald Fricker found themselves doing earlier this year. Just as their book, Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague—the latest in the ASA’s collaborative series with CRC Press—was going to the printer in early 2020, news was emerging about the novel coronavirus.
Statisticians Create COVID-19 Dashboard to Predict Infection
A group of statistics professors and students from several universities created a dashboard to visualize, track, and predict real-time COVID-19 infections and deaths in the US.
May Issue of TAS Now Online; Print Copies Delayed
The May 2020 issue of The American Statistician (TAS) is now online, although print copies will be delayed because of the COVID-19 crisis.