The February 2021 issue of The American Statistician (TAS) is available online and features 13 articles and one letter to the editor. One of the benefits of ASA membership is free access to the online issues of TAS.
Ani Eloyan’s favorite subject in school, while growing up in Armenia, was mathematics. It wasn’t until graduate school, however, that she pursued statistics and learned to model health data. While she focused on the methodology of matrix decompositions for her PhD thesis, she had the opportunity to learn about neuroscience and applying statistics when analyzing brain imaging data during a postdoctoral fellowship. Her career and life have given her some great first moments—seeing the pride on her grandfather’s face when she finished her PhD, watching her first PhD student defend her dissertation, and hearing her toddler say a complete sentence.