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Promoting the Science of Regulatory Statistics in Support of Regulatory Decisionmaking 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The ASA will celebrate its 175th anniversary in 2014. In preparation, column “175″—written by members of the ASA’s 175th Anniversary Steering Committee and other ASA members—will chronicle the theme c...
Biopharmaceutical Symposium to Offer Tutorials, Short Courses 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The 20th anniversary meeting of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS XX) will be held November 4–7 at the Double Tree (by Hilton) Hotel in downtown Orlando, Florida. At least 16 o...
Chapter Holds AP Statistics Competition 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The Orange County Long Beach Chapter held its first high-school AP Statistics competition June 1 at the University of California, Irvine. The turnout included 146 students presenting 57 posters to the...
Causality in Statistics Education Prize Winners Announced 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Prize Committee Members Dennis Pearl (OSU, CAUSE, co-chair) Judea Pearl (UCLA, co-chair) Daniel Kaplan (Macalester) Maya Petersen (Berkeley) Michael Posner (Villanova) Larry Wasserman (CMU) Las...
Dimensional Analysis Featured in August Issue 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Hugh A. Chipman, Technometrics Editor Dimensional Analysis (DA) is a fundamental method in the engineering and physical sciences for analytically reducing the number of experimental variables affecti...
ASA 2013 Statistics Poster and Project Competition Winners 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Poster Competition and Project Competition. First-place winners received $200, a plaque, a plaque for their school, ...
Tune in to Podcasts from Biopharmaceutical Section 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Rima Izem and Richard C. Zink Imagine radio statistics, a radio station that would allow you to tune in to a pitch for the latest statistics paper or book; hear a book review; or hear about upcoming ...
Rice University to Host StatFest 2013 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Rice University is hosting StatFest 2013, a one-day conference aimed at encouraging undergraduate students from historically under-represented groups to consider careers and graduate studies in the st...
Arizona Chapter Sponsors Awards 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Jeffrey R. Wilson, ASA Chapter Representative More than 1,500 high-school students from 70 countries presented science projects at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Ari...
USCOTS 2013: Making Change Happen 1 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Allan Rossman, USCOTS Program Chair, and Jean Scott, CAUSE Program Coordinator The fifth biennial USCOTS took place May 16–18 at the Research Triangle Embassy Suites in Cary, North Carolina. The conf...
