The Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee’s Statistical Significance Poster Competition requires participants to submit a one-page poster and summary to showcase how statistics can improve society.
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Ruishan Lin Wins Statistical Significance Poster Competition
Ruishan Lin won for her work on detecting brain activity changes, with an honorable mention awarded to Kimberly Greco for her research on rare disease phenotyping.
Design a Statistical Significance Piece, Win Money
A $300 prize will be awarded to the author of the JSM poster that includes a Statistical Significance piece judges decide describes the best contribution of statistics to society. What constitutes a Statistical Significance piece? Statistical Significance is a one-page illustration of the value of statistics to society within the context of the research problem dealt with in the poster submitted for […]
Thanks for and Gratitude to the ASA Community
ASA President Dionne Price highlights a few items she is grateful for and says thank you to our amazing professional community.
Statistical Significance Competition Sees Many Winners
With a record number of 50 submissions to the annual JSM Statistical Significance competition, the ASA Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee (SPAAC) recognized two first-place winners, three second-place winners, and five honorable mentions.
ASA President’s Task Force Statement on Statistical Significance and Replicability
The value of hypothesis testing, and the frequent misinterpretation of p-values as a cornerstone of statistical methodology, continues to be debated. In 2019, the president of the American Statistical Association, Karen Kafadar, convened a task force to consider the use of statistical methods in scientific studies, specifically hypothesis tests and p-values, and their connection to replicability.
Entries Invited for Statistical Significance Competition
The Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee invites all JSM 2021 poster contributors to compete for a policy applications prize in its 12th Statistical Significance competition.
Task Force on Statistical Significance and Replicability Created
An ASA Task Force on Statistical Significance and Replicability will be created, with a charge to develop thoughtful principles and practices that the ASA can endorse and share with scientists and journal editors.
ASA Extends Outreach to School Counselors at ASCA Event
ASA members Christine Franklin and Leann Myers recently represented the ASA at the conference of the American School Counselors Association in New Orleans to raise students’ awareness of the many reasons to take statistics.
Entries Invited for Statistical Significance Competition
The Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee invites all JSM 2016 poster contributors to compete for a policy applications prize in its fifth Statistical Significance competition.