Greg Steeno discusses the 60th Fall Technical Conference and Greg Piepel talks about the SPES Marquardt Memorial Speakers Program.
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Nominations for Gertrude M. Cox and Roger Herriot Awards Sought
Nominate a distinguished statistician for the 2017 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics and Gertrude M. Cox Award.
San Antonio Chapter Mentors STEM Students
The San Antonio Chapter, in collaboration with the department of management science and statistics and ASA student chapter at The University of Texas at San Antonio, promoted statistical literacy and supported the Saint Matthews Catholic School STEM club in December.
Initiatives for the Long Game
ASA President Barry D. Nussbaum’s initiatives focus on communications, youth, and the engagement of our largest growing professional sector—Asian statisticians.
Call for JSM Late-Breaking Session Proposals
Two invited slots have been set aside for sessions that cover technical, scientific, or policy-related topics that have arisen during the one-year period prior to JSM 2017.
Conference on Repeated Measures Data Draws Crowd
Approximately 150 participants from various countries attended the International Conference on Analysis of Repeated Measures Data at Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of the University of Dhaka.
Fritz Scheuren to Give Deming Lecture
The ASA has chosen Fritz Scheuren, senior fellow and vice president in the Center for Excellence in Survey Research at NORC, as the recipient of its 2017 Deming Lecture Award.
People News for February
News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the February issue.
Q&A with ASA President Barry D. Nussbaum: What Does a Statistician Do?
A high-school student, working on a research project about careers in statistics, emailed ASA President Barry D. Nussbaum a few questions. Nussbaum answers them here.
High-School, College Sophomores Provide the Most Accurate Predictions of U.S. Presidential Election Results
Winners of Prediction 2016 used sophisticated statistical methods to predict state-by-state and overall percentage outcomes with greater accuracy than more than 450 students across the United States.