The 2014 Presidential Initiative Workgroup on Developing Training in Statistical Leadership will offer the first course on improving leadership in the statistics profession August 2–3 during the Joint Statistical Meetings.
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How Statistics Training Can Lead to Management
Whitney Murphy, senior statistician for NORC at the University of Chicago, discusses how statistics training can lead to an opportunity in management.
If I Were Starting Over …
Master’s level statistician Richard Morris discusses what he would be doing now if he were starting over as a statistician.
Career Success Training for Statisticians: A Progress Update
One of the presidential initiatives Bob Rodriguez described in his first column was the formation of a workgroup to develop career-building courses that enable statisticians to become more successful. Here, workgroup chair Bob Starbuck explains how this effort has evolved, how you can contribute, and how you will benefit.
NIGMS Seeks Applications for Research Training Program
In 2004, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences spearheaded a trans-NIH effort to increase the number of trained biostatisticians through its biostatistics predoctoral research training program. Applications for this program are now being accepted.
Web-Based Training Program Convenient, Successful
Web-based training has become a standard teaching tool for the Biopharmaceutical Section because it is both convenient and cost effective.
Biostatistics Degrees: Missing Data and Other Issues
Tracking down data on the statistics (including biostatistics) discipline, Keith Crank noticed some of these data come from the ASA’s surveys, some from joint surveys with the American Mathematical Society, and some from government agencies.