Statistician in history—Edward Jarvis
Statistician in history—Joseph Barlow Felt
How do you advocate for your profession? Steve Pierson, ASA's Director of Science Policy shows you the many ways you can get involved.
Sandra Stinnett did not start out to be a biostatistician, but over the years grew to love statistics. Here, she talks about who and what inspired her to become a biostatistician and how she eventually became an inspiration to women in the statistics profession.
Marcos Carzolio reflects on his summer in Mozambique collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data.
In high school, Randi Garcia loved math—and her math grades showed it. But when it came time to decide a college major, she chose to study psychology and women’s studies. Fortunately, she was quickly introduced to statistics and data analysis via her psychology courses and her love for math made a giant comeback. She now has her dream job at Smith College, where she teaches courses in both statistical and data sciences and psychology.
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Besides being an ASA Board member, Dick De Veaux is a teacher, singer, and dancer.
Nearly 200,000 AP Statistics tests were administered in 2015, an increase of more than 11,000 from the previous year.
Here, Jean Gibbons, first chair of the Committee on Women in Statistics, talks about her life and her work as a statistician.
Dana Haberling and Jodi Vanden Eng both spent some time working as statisticians in Sierra Leone. Here, they share their experiences.
Foreword by Karen Kafadar Shortly after my arrival at Princeton University as a graduate student in the fall of 1975, the chairman told me to see John Tukey "because he has some project for you to wo...
William Gemmell Cochran was born on July 15, 1909, in Rutherglen, Scotland, arguably the oldest royal burgh in the country. Cochran and his one brother had a typical childhood for a middle-class famil...
The mandate is clear: Statisticians, data scientists, and information technologists need to work together to resolve Big Data challenges. Here, Ryan J. Machtmes discusses best practices statisticians may apply when working with data scientists.
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Statistician in history—Oliver William Bourn Peabody
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The Women in Statistics and Data Science conference has become one of the ASA’s most popular and positive conferences. This year's conference will be held October 18-20 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Professionals and students from academia, industry, and the government who are working in statistics and data science will convene for learning and professional development opportunities in an environment that attendees call "welcoming, inspiring, empowering, motivating, eye opening, and awesome!"
Ingram Olkin's accomplishments are legion in the world of statistics, and he has mentored many of today’s statisticians. Read about the effects of Olkin's life on statistics and statisticians.
While studying for her undergraduate degree at Smith College, Elizabeth A. Stuart knew she wanted to “save the world through math,” but she had no idea what that meant. After college, she worked as a research assistant at Mathematica Policy Research, which is where she discovered statistics as a way to link her interests in public policy, the social sciences, and mathematics. She now works at the interface of statistical methods and public health, with expertise in methods for estimating causal effects. She is professor of mental health, biostatistics, and health policy and management and associate dean for education at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
We wanted to know how departments are keeping pace with the increased interest in statistics, so we asked the heads of some of the largest and fastest-growing statistics departments to respond to few questions.
Laber Labs was created to foster collaboration between artists and statisticians in the pursuit of cross-disciplinary research and novel approaches to outreach and scientific translation.
Responding to calls from the National Science Foundation and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, three ASA groups wrote whitepapers detailing how statisticians can contribute to administration research initiatives and priorities. The whitepapers, profiled here, cover the BRAIN Initiative, the Big Data Research and Development Initiative, and climate change.
This article is referenced in "Students, Teachers, Community Pull Off Successful Poster Competition" and appears courtesy of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
Science magazine editor-in-chief, Marcia McNutt, recently announced the July 1 appointment of a new statistical board of reviewing editors (SBoRE)—composed of prominent members of the statistical community—that will help address reproducibility issues and increase confidence in the papers published in the magazine.
Judith Tanur has had an enriching career in statistics lasting five decades. As a statistician, editor, adviser, and mentor who has made many contributions to statistics and education, she also has inspired students through her work at Stony Brook University. She is a woman of many hats.
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The release in 2012 and widespread adoption in most states of the Common Core State Standard for Mathematics have dramatically increased the amount of statistical content and expectations for teaching statistics in grades 6–12.
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Monthly Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association
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Several volunteer superstars of the ASA tell us how and why they got involved.
\"Over the years, I have had the opportunity to teach several regression courses, and I cannot think of a better undergraduate text than this one.\" --The American Statistician \"The book is well written and has many exercises. It can serve as a very good textbook for scientists and engineers, with only basic statistics as a prerequisite. I also highly recommend it to practitioners who want to solve real-life prediction problems.\" (Computing Reviews) Modern Regression Methods, Second Edition maintains the accessible organization, breadth of coverage, and cutting-edge appeal that earned its predecessor the title of being one of the top five books for statisticians by an Amstat News book editor in 2003. This new edition has been updated and enhanced to include all-new information on the latest advances and research in the evolving field of regression analysis. The book provides a unique treatment of fundamental regression methods, such as diagnostics, transformations, robust regression, and ridge regression. Unifying key concepts and procedures, this new edition emphasizes applications to provide a more hands-on and comprehensive understanding of regression diagnostics. New features of the Second Edition include: A revised chapter on logistic regression, including improved methods of parameter estimation A new chapter focusing on additional topics of study in regression, including quantile regression, semiparametric regression, and Poisson regression A wealth of new and updated exercises with worked solutions An extensive FTP site complete with Minitab macros, which allow the reader to compute analyses, and specialized procedures Updated references at the end of each chapter that direct the reader to the appropriate resources for further study An accessible guide to state-of-the-art regression techniques, Modern Regression Methods, Second Edition is an excellent book for courses in regression analysis at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable reference for practicing statisticians, engineers, and physical scientists.
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Data science is the full-length mirror statisticians need to hold up in front of their discipline for a long time so they can examine how the field looks from multiple angles.
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ReferencesOVERALL Pearl, D. (Feb. 10, 2022). "Stats + Stories" podcast episode #218Lesser, L. (Sept. 2017). FUNdamental engagement in statistics education. Amstat News, no. 483, 24-28.Lesser, L.M., Pearl, D.K., & Weber, J.J. (July 2016). Assessing fun items’ effectiveness in increasing learning of college introductory statistics students: Results of a randomized experiment. Journal of Statistics Education, 24(2), 54-62. http://tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10691898.2016.1190190.Lesser, L.M., Wall, A., Carver, R., Pearl, D.K., Martin, N., Kuiper, S., Posner, M.
This special issue of CHANCE is devoted to recognizing and celebrating women in statistics and their contributions to statistical science.
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Check out photos from JSM 2015 in Seattle.
This is an excerpt from the original article “A Conversation with Monroe Sirken,” published in Statistical Science in 2007. The interviews conducted by Barry Graubard, Paul Levy, and Gordon Willis took place in three sessions at the National Center for Health Statistics during the spring of 2006.
Joseph Steinberg was part of the U.S. Census Bureau's "Golden Age." Here is a look at his distinguished career as a public servant and statistician in the private sector.
