The American Statistical Association held its third annual Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) August 3–4, concurrently with the Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC. Developed to help K–12 mathematics and science teachers meet current mathematics and science standards for teaching statistics, the program provides an opportunity for teachers to discuss and apply the statistical concepts and data analysis tools described in the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Report: A Pre-K–12 Curriculum Framework.
JSM 2009
Award Winners Announced, JSM 2010 Preparations Begin
Sonja Greven, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at The Johns Hopkins University, was recently named the winner of the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. She received a $1,000 award for her paper, “On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models,” which she presented at JSM in Washington, DC.
ASA Fellow Award Revisited
Robert Starbuck The 2009 ASA Fellow awards were presented during JSM in Washington, DC. Presented below is a brief update to previous articles on this subject appearing in Amstat News. A few corrections have been made to previous counts of Fellow nominees and awardees. Employment Sector In the range of years shown, the percentages of […]