Here, Keith Crank, ASA research and graduate education manager, provides a reasonable comparison of academic salaries for faculty in statistics and biostatistics.
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Stuart Arthur Rice
Stuart Arthur Rice, president of the American Statistical Association in 1933, had a career that can, in one sense, be epitomized as the evolution of a student activist and young radical political party worker to social worker, to student and teacher of sociology, to statistician and statistical statesman.
Mentor a Statistician Today
I am proud that our association has about 18,000 members from such diverse backgrounds, but I would love to see our membership be much higher. As I meet our members and many potential members at various conferences and chapter meetings, it is clear we can enhance mentoring of young statisticians. They are the future of our association and our profession.
Find an Internship
Every year, a list of internship opportunities for students is published in Amstat News. Internships benefit both the organization and the student. The student has the opportunity to work with practicing statisticians who are proficient in their fields and to learn what it is like to work in an industrial, laboratory, or office setting. The organization obtains the benefit of the student’s academic and other training, contributes to the professional development of that student, and has a first-hand opportunity to evaluate the student’s potential for future employment.
Frederick Mosteller
Charles Frederick Mosteller was one of the towering figures in twentieth-century statistics.
Arnold Zellner
Kathy Morrissey interviewed Arnold to learn more about him as a person: his childhood, early career, and interests. This is what she found.
C.R. Rao Receives National Medal of Science
by Megan Kruse Calyampudi Radhakrishna (C.R.) Rao, Eberly Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis at Pennsylvania State University, was honored at the White House with the National Medal of Science on June 13, 2002. Rao earned an M.A. in Mathematics at Andhra University, another M.A. in Statistics at […]
John W. Tukey
As one of the most influential statisticians of the last 50 years, John Wilder Tukey developed many important tools of modern statistics and introduced concepts that were central to the creation of today’s telecommunications technologies. In addition to his formidable research achievements,