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Recollections and Thoughts About JSM in San Diego
Click here to view pictures from JSM 2012. Steve MacEachern, JSM 2012 Program Chair A particular pleasure within the statistics community—whether corporate, government, or academic—is the chance to...
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Obituaries for January 2013
Jack Hall Jack Hall David Oakes, Jon Wellner, Robert Strawderman, and Siddhartha Dalal W. Jackson “Jack” Hall—a Fellow of the ASA, emeritus professor of statistics, and professor in the department of...
View ArticleThe New Jersey Chapter Co-sponsors Benefit/risk Workshop
The New Jersey Chapter of the ASA and Bayer Pharmaceuticals co-sponsored a benefit/risk workshop at Bayer in November 2013. Nearly 100 attendees heard informative talks about FDA’s current plans for...
View ArticleSirken Endows Fund to Recognize Survey Researchers
Monroe Sirken, a longtime member of the ASA, recently provided the association with an endowment fund to recognize a distinguished survey researcher. The honoree will give the first Sirken Lecture at...
View ArticleBiometrics Section News
Edited by Sheng Luo, Biometrics Section Publications Officer The Biometrics Section will sponsor two Continuing Education courses and six invited sessions at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings in...
View ArticleGovernment Statistics Section Sponsors Data Challenge at JSM
The Government Statistics Section (GSS) will sponsor a data challenge in 2015. The contest, which challenges participants to analyze a public data set using any statistical and/or visualization tools...
View ArticleStatistics in Epidemiology News
The Statistics in Epidemiology Section will sponsor a JSM short course on the joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, taught by Joseph G. Ibrahim, on August 10 from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. For...
View ArticleTwo JASA Papers Recognized for Outstanding Contributions
Members of the Journal of the American Statistical Association editorial board recently announced the winners of the inaugural JASA Reproducibility Award, which recognizes papers that demonstrate...
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