The statistics profession’s reaction to data science prompted my colleague to ask this question: “Why does our profession often find itself in reactive mode—reacting to others’ direction—rather than being proactive and setting the direction ourselves?”
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Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Hold Conference on Electronic Health Records
The Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics 12th Annual UPENN Conference on Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials will be held April 17.
Jerome Sacks Award Nominations Sought
The prize recognizes sustained, high-quality, cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.
Statistics Student Awarded Truman Scholarship
ASA member Mikaela Meyer was awarded a Truman Scholarship to support her graduate studies in public policy and completed an internship at the US Government Accountability Office.
Six Statistical Organizations Issue Commendation for Andreas Georgiou
The ASA and five other statistical organizations joined to commend Andreas Georgiou for upholding the highest professional standards in his public service in the pursuit of integrity of statistical systems.
P&C Committee Discusses Privacy Protections for Transportation Data in Big Data Environment
The Privacy and Confidentiality Committee organized an invited session at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings that focused on protecting participants’ privacy in large-scale transportation studies.
Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium Is Forum for Discussion, Networking
Statisticians, biostatisticians, and mental health researchers discussed the impending statistical challenges of mental health research during the Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health in June.
$1k Scholarships Available for Statistics, Biostatistics Students
The Biopharmaceutical Section will offer a scholarship of $1,000 to each of three students in 2019.
2018 Causality in Statistics Education Prize Winners Announced
The American Statistical Association awarded the sixth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf for their open-access textbook, Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms.
1000 Girls, 1000 Futures: New York Academy of Sciences’ Mentoring Initiative
New York Academy of Sciences’ 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures encourages women ages 13–18 interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to pursue STEM careers through skill development and mentoring.