How can you ensure your Everest expedition ends in success? Why is it so hard to find a good fit when shopping for clothes? This issue of Significance has statistical answers to both these questions and a good many more besides.
Robert Santos
Meet Robert Santos, US Census Bureau Director
Robert Santos’s career spans more than 40 years in survey research, statistical design and analysis, and executive-level management.
Census Quality Indicators Task Force Wraps Up
The task force produced two reports: 2020 Census Quality Indicators: A Report from the American Statistical Association, released in October 2020, and Final Report: 2020 Census State Population Totals: A Report from the American Statistical Association Task Force on 2020 Census Quality Indicators, released in September 2021.
ASA Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Assault Provides Summary Report
In an effort to proactively address issues around sexual misconduct and gender discrimination, the ASA Board of Directors approved the formation of the Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Assault at their November 2017 meeting and appointed members from a cross-section of the ASA membership. This is a summary of the task force’s findings.
ASA Members Elect Robert Santos and Dionne Price to Association Leadership
American Statistical Association members elected Robert L. Santos as the association’s 116th president. Santos, vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute, will begin a three-year term on the ASA Board of Directors in January 2020 as president-elect. Dionne L. Price was elected vice president and will also start a three-year term in 2020. Price is director of the Division of Biometrics IV in the Office of Biostatistics in the Food and Drug Administration Office of Translational Sciences, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.