There are many routes a statistician can take to reach an area to study. In an effort to get to know these routes, we asked a few ASA members to answer questions about the paths they took to get where they are today.
Research
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Meredith Berthelson and Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl discuss one of the most valuable funding mechanisms for mathematics and statistics graduate students: the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Reproducible Research
This month’s guest editors, Keith A. Baggerly and Donald A. Berry, make the case that journals have a key role to play in making research reproducible. Their call comes in the aftermath of attempts to reproduce the cancer research results of Duke’s Anil Potti and Joseph Nevins, whose seemingly promising 2006 work led to three clinical trials.
The Statistician’s Role in an Integrated Health Care System
The need to improve the effectiveness of clinical care delivery is greater than ever. Here, Intermountain Healthcare clinicians Karen Valentine, Roberta James, and Cempaka Martial discuss a statistician’s role in an integrated health care system.
Making the Transition from Coursework to Research
Finishing your coursework and moving to the research portion of your degree can be exhilarating and nerve-racking. Here, PhD students Stacey Winham and Danny Modlin offer some helpful tips on making the transition.
Journal Seeks Undergraduates Interested in Research
The Journal of Young Investigators (JYI) is soliciting staff applications and news, feature, and research article submissions. Here is a listing of staff positions available.
R15: The Academic Research Enhancement Award
Most statisticians know the National Institutes of Health is a major source of funding for statistical methodology research relevant to the health sciences through investigator-initiated research grants. Less well known is that NIH has a variety of mechanisms, which vary according to purpose and target audience.