Applied and practicing statisticians in the ASA Statistical Consulting Section are engaged and playing key roles in COVID-19 research. Here, we highlight members of the section who are responding to COVID-19.
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ASA Members Stop the Presses with New Book About Disease Outbreaks
It’s not often statisticians get to shout, “Stop the presses,” but that’s what longtime ASA members Steve Rigdon and Ronald Fricker found themselves doing earlier this year. Just as their book, Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague—the latest in the ASA’s collaborative series with CRC Press—was going to the printer in early 2020, news was emerging about the novel coronavirus.
The Pandemic JSM
As Futurama’s Professor Hubert Farnsworth says in his catchphrase announcement of potential disaster, “Good news, everyone! The JSM is going virtual.” But JSM Program Chair David Banks thinks we can make it work.
Statisticians Create COVID-19 Dashboard to Predict Infection
A group of statistics professors and students from several universities created a dashboard to visualize, track, and predict real-time COVID-19 infections and deaths in the US.
Highlights of the April 2020 Board of Directors Meeting
The ASA Board held its first meeting of 2020 in April via videoconference. The highlights of the board meeting included discussion of the ASA’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic and strategic initiatives for 2020.
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics Plans COVID-19 Issue
The Journal of Nonparametric Statistics is planning an issue on COVID-19 and is seeking papers on subjects related to the virus with a data science approach.
ASA Members Show Leadership During COVID-19 Crisis
In January—when COVID-19 sprang up in China and the world seemingly began to transform daily—statisticians, biostatisticians, data scientists, and epidemiologists went to work turning data into information people could use. Here are some of the ASA members who forged ahead during the crisis and provided direction based on sound statistical practice.
Data for Good Takes on the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, data and analysis have played a central role in understanding the crisis, informing health officials and hospitals, and driving data-driven decisions to address and mitigate the impact. It’s been all hands on deck for the D4G community, with everyone working together to make a difference.
JSM Is Now Virtual
Given we know so little about what the COVID-19 pandemic will look like in August, the ASA has determined the best option is to hold JSM virtually.
NISS to Work on Surveillance Project
The National Science Foundation and Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded $664,019 to the National Institute of Statistical Sciences for collaborative research to develop Bayesian methods for syndromic surveillance.