We wanted to know what it takes to develop and design a survey, so we interviewed Mario Callegaro and Gordon Willis, two research scientists. Both men will be featured speakers at the International Conference on Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation, and Testing, which will take place in Miami, Florida, in November 2016.
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Smells Like Stat Spirit
The signature 90s hit (“Smells Like Teen Spirit”) of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Nirvana (from the city of last month’s JSM) inspired UT-El Paso’s Lawrence Lesser to playfully depict some impressions of our subject.
EPA’s Barry D. Nussbaum Elected 112th ASA President
Barry D. Nussbaum, chief statistician at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was elected the 112th president of the American Statistical Association by the membership.
Physical and Engineering Sciences News
The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) program for JSM 2015 will feature three invited, three topic-contributed, and five contributed sessions.
Obituary: Janet Norwood’s Legacy of Objectivity
No one did more to advance the reputation for objectivity of the critical employment, price, and wage data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) than its 10th commissioner, Janet L. Norwood, who passed away in March.
Highlights of the March 2015 ASA Board of Directors Meeting
President David Morganstein welcomed board members to the ASA office in Alexandria, Virginia, for its first meeting of 2015.
Negotiating a Statistical Career Part 2: A JSM Panel Discussion
How can your negotiating skills help your statistical career? In this guest blog post, biostatistician Leila Zelnick summarizes nine hypothetical scenarios from a 2014 JSM panel discussion and explains how panel experts recommended navigating them.
Negotiating a Statistical Career
Leila Zelnick shares the practical advice she learned after attending a JSM panel discussion on negotiating a statistical career.
Q&A with UNL’s Director of Computational Sciences Initiative
Jennifer Clarke is an associate professor in food science and technology and statistics and director of the Computational Sciences Initiative at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
Former Students Recall Gertrude Cox
Ingram Olkin, Mike Free, Stu Hunter, and Marvin Kastenbaum recall contacts with Gertrude Cox.