Greg Ridgeway, Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Criminology and professor of statistics and data science at the University of Pennsylvania, was recently awarded the Journal of the American Statistical Association’s 2026 reproducibility award. Read this short interview to learn more about him and his work.
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Practical Significance | Episode 55: Forward Stats—Frontiers of Statistics in Science and Engineering: 2035 and Beyond
In this forward-looking episode of Practical Significance, co-hosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein sit down with a powerhouse panel to explore where statistics is headed over the next decade. Kathy Ensor (Rice University), Lance Waller (Emory University), and Brittany Segundo (National Academies) dive into a major National Academies consensus study: Frontiers of Statistics in Science and Engineering: 2035 and Beyond. Ensor (chair) and Waller (vice chair) are […]
Crossing the First Span: Initial Feedback on Our Nature Medicine Collaboration
Here is the transcript of Ji-Hyun Lee interviewing members of the statistical advisory panel of the journal Nature Medicine.
Newest Issue of JSDSE Focuses on Sharing Deidentified Data, Code
In the July issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, an editorial co-authored by Nicholas J. Horton and Sara Stoudt discusses the journal’s requirements for authors to share deidentified data and code that underlies their papers. Here, they provide the key take-aways.
JASA Partners with Authors to Enhance Reproducibility
In 2016, the Journal of the American Statistical Association Applications and Case Studies introduced a reproducibility initiative to address the lack of standardized practices for reproducibility in scientific research. This initiative established minimum criteria for the inclusion of code, data, and workflow for JASA Applications and Case Studies papers and piloted a new editorial role—associate editor of reproducibility—to implement these standards. This initiative has since expanded to all original research manuscripts published in the journal.
Jeffrey T. Leek Wins COPSS Presidents’ Award
The COPSS Presidents’ Award citation recognized Leek for influential work addressing high-dimensional data; for development of empirical tools for data science as a science with applications to meta-research, reproducibility, and replicability; for scaling (bio)statistics-centered data science education to millions of people worldwide; and for leveraging data science tools, educational technologies, and community partnerships to create economic opportunities in under-served communities.
Reproducible Research in JASA: 5 Years On
Due to the effort and dedication put forth by editors, associate editors, reviewers, and journal staff, the JASA reproducibility initiative is celebrating its five-year anniversary and its future looks promising.
JSDSE Calls for Papers About Teaching Reproducibility and Responsible Workflow
Submissions at all levels of education (primary through graduate programs and continuing education) are welcome.
Data for Good: The Year in Review
The year 2020 was a year of great changes and challenges. The Data for Good community was at the center of many storms in the past year, rising to the challenge to support communities, guide an economy through a sea of troubles, preserve the environment, fight for justice, and—perhaps as no year before—save lives.
Task Force on Statistical Significance and Replicability Created
An ASA Task Force on Statistical Significance and Replicability will be created, with a charge to develop thoughtful principles and practices that the ASA can endorse and share with scientists and journal editors.