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Counting Down to JSM 2024
With the theme “Statistics and Data Science: Informing Policy and Countering Misinformation,” this conference anticipates more than 5,000 attendees and 600 sessions. Learn about the featured speakers and events.
Obituaries for February 2022
ASA members Kjell Doksum and Leland Wilkinson passed away recently.
Nominations Sought for 2023 Waksberg Award
The award honors a prominent survey statistician who will give an address at the Statistics Canada Symposium in 2023.
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.
Demystifying Apportionment Computations for the US House of Representatives
Basic arithmetic skill (multiplication, division, and taking square roots) is all one needs to remove any mystery concerning the details of the computations about how to determine the number of seats each state gets based on its population.
ISBA Accepting Submissions for Savage Award
The Prize Committee of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis is accepting submissions for the 2021 Savage Award until May 31. A monetary prize of $750 will be awarded.
Survey Research Methods Section News for August 2019
The survey methodology program at the University of Michigan will offer a webinar titled Multilevel Regression and Post-Stratification in October.
The American Statistician Highlights: August Issue Spans Methodology, Applications
The August 2018 issue of The American Statistician features eight articles and two letters to the editor that span a wide range of interesting methodology and application areas.
Is Nate Silver a Statistician?
Christopher Franck raises the question: “Is Nate Silver a statistician?”