The ASA Board of Directors released a statement regarding the rejection of introductory probability and statistics textbooks after the ASA Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights brought to its attention that the Florida Department of Education had four probability and statistics books on its “K–12 Mathematics Instructional Materials Not Recommended List” for 2021–2022.
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Ambiguity: The Biggest Challenge Lies Ahead
George Cobb discusses what thoughtful statisticians know: Inference from data cannot be reduced to rules.
Consider Donating Textbooks to Statisticians in Cuba
Chris Barker recently visited Cuba and found that statisticians there need statistics books. Here, he explains how you can help.
SIAM Offers Solution to Costly Textbooks
SIAM, joint publisher of the ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability, has enacted the Textbook Adoption Discount Program, which offers students 20% off list price for any SIAM book adopted as a primary text for an undergraduate- or graduate-level course.