The Molecular Diversity Preservation International open-access journal Stats will feature a special issue, “Small Area Estimation: Theories, Methods, and Applications.” The guest editor is looking for papers in small area estimation that have strong theories, methods, and applications or a mix of these broad areas.
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Katherine Thompson Appointed Statistics Editor of Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
The ASA and AAPOR welcome Katherine Thompson of the US Census Bureau as the next statistics editor for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. Thompson will serve a three-year term.
On Becoming Indispensable
In her latest column, Karen Kafadar asks, “How do we convince people they really want statisticians’ insight, estimation, and valid inference from data?”
SRMS Announces JSM 2011 Sponsored Sessions
The ASA Survey Research Methods Section will sponsor or cosponsor more than 50 sessions at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami Beach, Florida.