Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein chat with Michael Zyphur, director of Instats, about the ASA’s partnership with the company, which is dedicated to improving research practices by offering expert-led training through its online platform.
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Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences News for August 2018
The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences is looking to send experienced applied statisticians to colleges and universities to give a seminar and meet with students and professors as part of the Marquardt Industrial Speakers Program.
People News for March
News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the March issue. For a complete listing of news and information about the members of the ASA, click here.
Jordan Urges Both Computational, Inferential Thinking in Data Science
As part of the NSF Data Science Seminar Series, Michael I. Jordan—chair of the University of California, Berkeley Department of Statistics—made his case for why one should think of data science as the combination of computational and inferential thinking.
Ann Arbor Chapter Hosts Seminar on the CCSS-M Statistics Standards for Grades 6-12
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics include much more statistics content than previous standards, especially at the middle- and secondary-school levels. To help prepare teachers to teach statistics, a member of the Ann Arbor Chapter developed a seminar called GAISEing into the Statistics Common Core.