ASA President Ji-Hyun Lee talks about her early experiences in clinical trial work and details the new Clinical Trials Certificate Program in this month’s President’s Corner.
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Better Employer Records Could Advance Research, Statistics, Evaluation
Modern technology and data science offer an opportunity to upgrade systems for employer wage records. One effort in this direction is the Jobs and Employment Data Exchange initiative, led by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation. The public-private initiative aims to enhance the content and systems for these records for the mutual benefit of businesses and government.
Section on Statistical Consulting Seeks Articles
The Section on Statistical Consulting, in conjunction with the journal Stat, is soliciting articles for a special issue, titled “Statistical Consulting and Collaboration,” with coeditors Robyn L. Ball, H. Dean Johnson, Lee-Ann Hayek, Xiaoyue Niu, Joseph Rigdon, and Hao Helen Zhang.
Statistical Consulting Section, Stat Seek Articles
The articles will go in a special issue, “Statistical Consulting and Collaboration,” with coeditors Robyn L. Ball, H. Dean Johnson, Lee-Ann Hayek, Xiaoyue Niu, Joseph Rigdon, and Hao Helen Zhang.
Consulting Best Practices: Practice and Mentorship
Many have touted what you should do to be an effective consultant over the past several years while neglecting the how. Here, David Morganstein and Philip Rocco Scinto discuss how to successfully implement and execute the necessary “nontechnical” habits, characteristics, qualities, and practices.
NIH Launches Training Program to Enhance Quantitative Training
Mentors will help train and support predoctoral candidates who will advance data science analytics.
More to Do at JSM
The JSM Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program brings minority statisticians together with senior mentors, and being a docent is a great way to help first-time JSM attendees!
Learn Survey Research Techniques in the 2016 Summer Institute
The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques will offer courses and workshops on many aspects of survey research from June 6–July 29.
Developing Training in Statistical Leadership
This month’s column presents the third in a series of interviews about ASA President Nathaniel Schenker’s presidential initiatives. Here, he interviews Janet Buckingham of Southwest Research Institute about training in statistical leadership for working statisticians .
Statistics Training: A Big Role in Big Data?
Lexin Li of North Carolina State University describes how two years in the Silicon Valley causes professor to wonder about statistics’ role in Big Data.