Demetra Nightingale, chief evaluation officer for the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL), describes her office’s evidence-based approach for improving the effectiveness of DoL’s many programs.
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ASA Participates in Sixth Climate Science Day
ASA Members Leonard Smith and Daniel Cooley were among 22 scientists participating in 80 meetings with members of Congress and their staff as part of the 6th annual Climate Science Day in February.
Leadership Is Listening: Data-Driven Decision-Making at NIGMS
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow Jake Basson writes about his data-driven decision-making work at the National Institute for General Medical Sciences—and what he’s found is encouraging.
FY17 Requests for NIH, NSF, Federal Statistical Agencies Largely Positive
President Barack Obama’s requested budget for Fiscal Year 2017 maintains his record of proposing generally healthy increases for the NIH, NSF, and many federal statistical agencies, but realizing increases of any amount will be challenging.
Final FY16 Spending Bill Provides Increases for NIH, Census, Statistical Agencies
Steve Pierson, ASA Director of Science Policy, breaks down the Fiscal Year 2016 omnibus spending bill signed into law in December, which included needed increases for the National Institutes of Health and many federal statistical agencies.
ASA Board Approves Expansion of ASA’s Science Policy Efforts
The ASA is seeking a statistician to serve as science policy fellow.
Forensic Statistics
Forensic statistics is the application of statistics to forensics problems. Over the past 100 years, a number of distinct approaches have been developed for quantifying forensic evidence that favor statisticians with strong backgrounds in mathematical statistics and statistical pattern recognition.
FY16 Budget Request Position NIH, NSF, and Federal Statistical Agencies Well for Congressional Deliberations
President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2016 (FY16) contains healthy increases for the NIH, NSF, and many federal statistical agencies, but realizing proposed increases will be a challenge with sequestration levels back in place.
Editor, Book Reviewers Wanted
The American Statistical Association invites nominations and applications for the positions of editor of Statistics and Public Policy and book reviewers of Technometrics.
GAO to FBI: More Focus on Statistics
The Government Accountability Office recommended that the FBI develop a framework for validation and statistical approaches for future investigations, with which the FBI agreed.