The Biometrics Section will sponsor a number of invited sessions and a mixer at JSM.
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Jonaki Bose
Jonaki Bose has been a federal statistician for 27 years. She’s worked in the Education, Transportation, and Health and Human Services departments. Now, as a senior adviser, she works on interesting production challenges, mentors, and performs methodological work with like-minded colleagues interested in furthering the production and use of health statistics.
Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Comes with $1M Award, Recognition
The King Baudouin Foundation—a large public utility foundation in Belgium—recently established the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, which comes with a $1 million award. Nominations will be accepted until March 31.
As the Statistics Profession Grows, So Does the ASA
ASA President Kathy Ensor sees three areas of immediate opportunity for the ASA: leadership, keeping vibrant data science and AI activities moving forward, and sustainability and community analytics. Here, she speaks briefly to each of these.
Win $300 in Statistical Significance Competition
Statistical Significance is a one-page illustration of the value of statistics to society. The objective is to illustrate to a lay person how the statistical solution to the problem presented would help form decisions that improve society.
Loni Tabb Gives Insight on Winning First Annie T. Randall Award
The Annie T. Randall Innovator Award was established to recognize early-career statistical innovators across all job sectors and honor path-breaking Black female statistician Annie T. Randall for her pioneering career in government amid pervasive racial discrimination. Established in 2020 by the Biometrics Section, the award provides a $2,000 prize each year and is co-sponsored by the Mental Health Statistics Section. The inaugural awardee is Loni Tabb, an associate professor at Drexel University.
2021: A Year of Hope and Helping
ASA President Rob Santos thinks now, more than ever, we as statisticians and human beings need to support each other. He encourages you to join him in devoting the year 2021 to building community.
ASA DataFest 2020: A Virtual Experience
The 2020 DataFest was held as a virtual data challenge in which students worked in teams to explore an impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Francesca Dominici of Harvard Receives Award for Betterment of Society
Dominici was honored for her high-quality, innovative, and policy-relevant science; her commitment to transparency and reproducibility in science; and her work in developing statistical methods for evaluating health effects of exposure to air pollution.
Joan Georgette Staniswalis
Joan Georgette Staniswalis was professor emerita at The University of Texas at El Paso and a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Her fluency in the customs and languages of two lands—combined with her exceptional intelligence, spiritual sensitivity, and generosity—made her a beloved mentor to legions of students, colleagues, and co-parishioners. She passed away in 2018.