CHANCE magazine discusses the COVID-19 pandemic, the “gambler’s fallacy,” and fixes for gerrymandering, as well as the death of Alan Paller, the original editor of the Visual Revelations column.
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My ASA Story: Claire Kelling, PhD Candidate
Claire Kelling joined the ASA in graduate school and had an invaluable experience at the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference in 2017, which sparked her association engagement.
2023 ASA Board of Directors Candidates
The ASA announces the candidates for the 2022 election. Voting begins April 11 and runs through May 2. Make sure to look for your ballots in your email inbox.
State of the Nation’s Health Data Infrastructure: Experts Weigh in Two Years into Pandemic
Count on Stats spoke with Jennifer Madans, Ninez Ponce, and Charles Rothwell—experts on the National Center for Health Statistics—for our series, State of the Data Infrastructure. They discuss how the pandemic exposed the agency’s challenges with budget, stature, and profile.
Reneé H. Moore
Reneé Moore attended Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina—a small, historically Black, women’s college. She loved teaching and declared three majors: mathematics; secondary mathematics education; and psychology. One summer, she participated in the Harvard Summer Program in Biostatistics and the United Negro College Fund Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which set her on the path to becoming a biostatistician. Moore is currently a research professor at Drexel University; director of the Biostatistics Scientific Collaboration Center; and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the department of epidemiology and biostatistics.
COC Members Reach Out with Books Despite COVID Snags
With all the judging and interaction with students for the 2021 International Science and Engineering Fair virtual, the ASA Council of Chapters had to overcome some challenges, like how to offer 100 students their choice of a book when they were located around the world and the books were in an office in Southern California.
TAIG Competition Winners Describe Research
Tommy Jones and Yeseul Jeon were recently named winners of the 2021 Text Analysis Interest Group presentation competition for talks they gave at the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings.
JSM 2022 Call for Contributed Abstracts, Chairs
The theme for JSM 2022 is “Statistics: A Foundation for Innovation,” which emphasizes the essential role of statistics in the era of big data and data science.
Bay Area Chapter Hosts Triumphant Summer Project Program
For the third year, the ASA’s Bay Area Chapter (SFASA) hosted its K–12 student summer project program, which brings together students to design projects under the mentorship of SFASA officers and volunteers.
My ASA Story: Allison Grove, Research Consultant
Allison Grove is a statistician and scientific writer at AG Research LLC, Freelance. She is also a fiber artist and enjoys weaving.