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Significance: October Issue Shows How to Climb Mt. Everest, Find Clothes to Fit
How can you ensure your Everest expedition ends in success? Why is it so hard to find a good fit when shopping for clothes? This issue of Significance has statistical answers to both these questions and a good many more besides.
Katherine Wallman to Receive 2017 Julius Shiskin Award
Katherine Wallman was recently awarded the Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics.
Nominations Sought for the Julius Shiskin Award
The Washington Statistical Society, National Association for Business Economics, and Business and Economics Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association are seeking nominations for the 2017 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics.
People News for July 2016
News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the July issue. For a complete listing of news and information about ASA members, click here.
Awards and Deadlines for March 2016
Nominations are sought for the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award, the Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research, and the Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics.
Argentine Statistics Making Turnaround
Graciela Bevacqua was recently announced as the technical director for the Argentine National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), the agency from which she was fired in 2007 under the previous government for defending the integrity of INDEC inflation data.
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Plans Research Conference
The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology 2012 Research Conference will be January 10–12, 2012, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Sessions will feature papers and demonstrations authored by government, private sector, and academic researchers from six countries. All sessions will include an open discussion, and some sessions will include a formal discussion.
Arnold Zellner
Kathy Morrissey interviewed Arnold to learn more about him as a person: his childhood, early career, and interests. This is what she found.