What does a journal look like when you design it for the research world we’re living in, along with the one we’re building? In the latest episode of Practical Significance, cohosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein welcome the editorial leadership team behind ASA Discoveries, the American Statistical Association’s new open-access journal. Editor-in-Chief Bo Li (Washington […]
Publications
A Case Study in Publication Practices: Full House Modeling
Daniel J. Eck responds to David Banks’ earlier A Statistician’s View piece.
Teaching During COVID Leads April JSDSE
The onset of COVID-19 had a direct and continuing impact on the educational sector, with institutions, instructors, students, and parents scrambling to adapt to a variety of online or hybrid educational models. The April issue of the open-access Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education leads with three papers that describe approaches to teaching during the pandemic.
Papers Wanted for JASA Special Issue on Statistical Science in AI
Editors of the Journal of the American Statistical Association are seeking papers for a special issue dedicated to exploring the intersection of statistical theory, methods, and applications with core problems in artificial intelligence.
Practical Significance | Episode 38: New Year … New Initiatives
Fortunately, 2024 is a leap year and February has an extra day because David Matteson, professor and associate chair for the statistics and data science and social statistics department at Cornell University, has a full plate. He recently took on the role of director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and is leading the […]
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, […]
Reproducible Research in JASA
JASA is leading the effort to establish publication standards that improve research quality and reproducibility.
The Future of the ASA’s Electronic Publications
During the last decade, the publications industry has undergone revolutionary change. Over the next few months, Amstat News will publish a series of articles to address these issues and seek feedback from the statistics community on how our association should manage publications going forward. Here are some of the issues that will be addressed.