ASA President Sastry Pantula provides several resources and examples for promoting the practice and profession of statistics in an ethical way.
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Let’s All Celebrate the First World Statistics Day
ASA President Sastry Pantula takes World Statistics Day as an opportunity to thank all statisticians who work on federal statistics around the globe for their valuable service to humanity and asks everyone to celebrate their service, professionalism, and integrity.
Soft Skills Just as Important as Core, Computational Skills When Looking for a Job
There is an axiom in the business world: Your hard skills—that is, what you can show and quantify on your résumé—will get you an interview, but it is your soft skills that will land you a job. ASA President Sastry Pantula includes some points he made about core, computational, and communication skills at a workshop for young industrial and business statisticians.
ASA President Appointed to NSF Directorship
ASA President Sastry Pantula was recently appointed Division Director for Mathematical Sciences in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation.
Happy New Year!
It is Thanksgiving Day as I write this column, though by the time you read it, it will be the beginning of a very happy new year. I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, and prosperous year, and I look forward to working with you to make our association thrive.
Testing for Unit Roots Topic of Mid-Michigan Presentation
ASA President-elect Sastry Pantula was the guest speaker at the mid-Michigan Chapter’s semiannual presentation on October 7, 2009. The presentation included a talk on the seminal work of D. A. Dickey and Wayne Arthur Fuller on testing for unit roots in time series data.