The 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon, featured more than 20 sessions and panels about statistical data privacy and confidentiality. Read about the highlights!
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Achieving Diversity in Labor Market Needs JEDI, Advocacy Groups
Joseph Gastwirth suggests changes in the way courts have interpreted the equal employment laws since the mid-1980s likely contributed to sustained socioeconomic inequality.
Risk Know-How: Supporting Communities in Navigating Risks
There is an important opportunity for members of the American Statistical Association to support community practitioners and develop a practical framework for risk know-how.
Webinar: Privacy Risk and Preservation
Countries and regions around the world have developed and deployed COVID-19 contact tracing software or mobile apps. While contact tracing plays an important role in the pandemic, red flags have been raised regarding the privacy risk associated with the contact tracing apps and software. Tune in to this webinar hosted by ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality as Fang Liu discusses the effectiveness of privacy-preserving measures.
Significance Allows Statistics to Tell COVID-19 Story
Significance issued an open call for contributions, asking statisticians and data scientists “to help us explain the statistics of COVID-19.”
Physical and Engineering Sciences Section Readies for JSM
The events formerly known as the SPES/Q&P and Risk/SDNS mixers are morphing into one four-section joint mixer during JSM in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The New Jersey Chapter Co-sponsors Benefit/risk Workshop
The New Jersey Chapter of the ASA and Bayer Pharmaceuticals co-sponsored a benefit/risk workshop at Bayer in November 2013.