Charles Bernard Bell Jr. was a pioneering statistician elected as an ASA Fellow and an Institute of Mathematical Statistics Honored Fellow. Bell earned his doctorate in mathematical statistics from the University of Notre Dame in 1953.
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Jack Youden
The impact of Jack’s work on the scientific community is most clearly defined in two main areas: experimental design and statistical analysis.
ASA Announces David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award
Endowed by a gift from Deborah G. Mayo, professor emerita of philosophy at Virginia Tech, the award honors the contributions of Cox to the foundations of statistical inference, experimental design, and data analysis.
Significance Covers COVID-19, Social Media, Rain-Predicting Tortoises
Can a pet tortoise predict when it’s about to rain? That’s the somewhat unusual question posed by Conner Jackson, winner of Significance magazine’s Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing. Jackson’s article, “Pietro the Weather Tortoise and the Pursuit of Soggy Bun Prevention,” leads the line-up of feature articles in the October 2021 issue.
Using Our Superpowers to Contribute to the Public Good
Rob Santos believes statisticians are superheroes, but their superpowers are only as good as their underlying assumptions.
Friends of Australasia Creates Statistics Workshop Series in Pacific Islands
In November of 2010, members of the American Statistical Association launched Friends of Australasia, an outreach group with the broad objective of facilitating communication and collaboration between ASA members and members of various Australasian statistics communities.