Flint, Michigan’s, Kettering University will host an international statistics conference in June titled “Flint: One City—100 Years Under Variability.” The conference will celebrate the 175th anniversary of the American Statistical Association.
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Statistics2013 Becomes The World of Statistics
In light of the success of Statistics2013, organizers decided it was essential to continue the global movement and rechristened Statistics2013 The World of Statistics.
Abstracts Sought for Conference on Mathematics in Finance
The fifth International Conference on Mathematics in Finance will take place August 24–29 in Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Collaborating with International Colleagues, or Should It Be Inter … Colleagues?
Geert Molenberghs discusses the importance of developing an intercultural knowledge that will help statisticians collaborate with other scientists from around the world.
How to Find and Prepare for Opportunities to Work in Developing Nations
James Cochran shows you how to work in a developing country and offers suggestions for who to contact and ways to contribute.
Statistical Society of Canada: What Is It and What Does It Do?
As part of the International Year of Statistics, Christian Léger, president of the Statistical Society Canada shares information about statistics in Canada and some of the exciting projects being developed by the society.
International Year of Statistics to Increase Visibility of Profession
Statisticians work in a vast array of fields—advancing science; creating new methodology; providing information that shapes public policy; improving business practices and enhancing production quality; making our medicines more effective, our food safer, and our planet better; and so much more. Statisticians come from many cultures, speak many languages, and arrive at statistics as their profession through many paths. But at least one aspect is recognized by virtually every statistician: Our discipline and profession is simply not visible enough.
Here, Ron Wasserstein, ASA executive director, discusses how the International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) is a major effort to increase the visibility of statistics and encourage young people to consider statistics as a career.
Not Just a New Year … An International Year of Statistics!
Marie Davidian discusses the International Year of Statistics in her first President’s Corner column of 2013.
International Census at School Workshop Held in Conjunction with JSM 2012
The American Statistical Association sponsored the 2012 International Census at School Workshop at the end of the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, California, on August 2 and 3. Read on for the details.
International Year of Statistics Strives to Increase Visibility of Profession
The ASA has joined other leading statistical societies to declare 2013 the International Year of Statistics in order to promote the importance of statistics to the broader scientific community, business and government data users, media, policymakers, employers, students, and the general public. Here, ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein describes the focus of the event.