The first meeting of the 2023 ASA Board of Directors featured the ASA’s first LinkedIn Live event—a conversation with the ASA Board of Directors.
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Member Feedback Sparks Initiatives
The ASA Committee on Membership Retention and Recruitment is working to understand the current membership experience, provide networking opportunities, and reinstate a fun tradition at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
Papers Wanted for Supplemental Issue of Prevention Science
The issue will bring together current thinking and new ideas about design and analytic methods for studies aimed at reducing health disparities from structural racism and other structural determinants of health.
ASA President’s Learning Curve
ASA President Kathy Ensor talks about the many ways to get involved in the association, including joining chapters, sections, and committees.
Practical Significance | Episode 16: Participation Matters: Recommendations from the ASA Publications Task Force
The review process for publication in ASA journals is highly competitive and, for some, there exist barriers for participation. This month, Practical Significance welcomes two members of the ASA Publications Task Force, Rebecca Hubbard and Kelly McConville, who share the findings of the task force and their vision for the future. Gleaning from personal experience, […]
Meet the ASA’s 2022 Incoming Editors
Eight of the ASA’s journals are gaining new leadership.
JSR to Publish Special Issue in Celebration of 50 Years
The Journal of Statistical Research is inviting manuscripts for a special issue on the occasion of its 50th year of publication and the 100-year anniversary of the University of Dhaka.
Quality and Productivity Section News for January 2021
The Q&P section will take primary sponsorship for the Fall Technical Conference.
Biopharmaceutical Section Offers Summary of Dos and Don’ts for Submitting Manuscripts
Recently, the Biopharmaceutical Section conducted a survey of the editors and associate editors of several applied statistics journals with a biopharmaceutical orientation. The survey was designed to be open-ended and asked the editors to list—based on their experiences—three don’ts commonly seen in submitted manuscripts and three dos.
Ralph D’Agostino: Editor, Adviser, Researcher, Professor
Ralph D’Agostino stepped down from his role as editor of Statistics in Medicine December 31, 2019. The major areas in which he excelled include being the lead biostatistician for the Framingham Heart Study, a biostatistical consultant to The New England Journal of Medicine, a member and consultant on federal drug advisory committees, and a 52-year faculty member in mathematics and statistics at Boston University.