The NYC Metro Area chapter details the results of their recent membership survey.
surveys
Surveys Here to Stay
With the proliferation of data and data sources, one might think surveys are becoming less in demand or less important, but ensuring estimations and predictions are solidly anchored in a probabilistic approach that enables drawing solid inferential conclusions is needed more than ever.
Diversity in Backgrounds, Careers a Major Theme in Survey of Master’s Graduates
The 2023 statistics and biostatistics master’s graduates who responded to the ASA follow-up survey in spring 2024 came to their graduate program with undergraduate majors in 45 fields and then diverged into careers and studies in a variety of sectors, regions, and fields.
Webinar Series Continues to Democratize Statistical Knowledge
The ASA’s Committee on International Relations in Statistics and Statistics Without Borders came together in the spring of 2022 to engage statisticians and data scientists based in different parts of the world and provide them with new educational opportunities.
Practical Significance| Episode 29—A 360° View of ASA Journals and Publications with Eric Sampson
Did you know the ASA publishes or co-publishes 16 journals focusing on statistics in business and economics, biopharmaceutical research, agriculture, biology, the environment, sports, surveys, and so much more? Eric Sampson oversees production (a Herculean effort) and has served as the ASA journals manager since 2008. Practical Significance co-hosts Donna and Ron talk with Eric […]
Applications Wanted for Bryant Scholarship
Applications are being accepted for the Edward C. Bryant Scholarship for an Outstanding Graduate Student in Survey Statistics until March 1.
Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality News for June 2021
Members of the ASA’s Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality will present at JSM 2021 and the 2021 World Statistics Congress.
ASA, SciLine Team Up on Media Fact Sheet
The ASA recently teamed up with SciLine to create a fact sheet on polling that would be accessible to a wide audience. They also created an online media briefing on polling, which is archived for general access on SciLine’s website.
Irene Hess
In 1940, Irene Hesse came to work with Leslie Kish at the Survey Research Center. Under Kish, she trained many graduate students in the details of sampling.
Polly Phipps
Polly Phipps fell in love with statistics when, as a student, she designed and carried out a probability survey from beginning to end. She trained as a survey methodologist and joined the federal government in the late 1980s. Ultimately, she developed tools to evaluate quality at early and late stages of questionnaire development and put into place a model for instrument design that incorporated qualitative and quantitative methods.