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  Statistical collections guide--ISU Library Special Collections
The American Statistical Association is a professional society interested in the theory, methodology, and application of statistics to all fields of human endeavor.
The Annals of Statistics is the scholarly journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Lukacs was a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.
www.lib.iastate.edu /spcl/collections/statistics.html   (2983 words)

  
 Texas A&M Trio Named American Statistical Association Fellows
Being named an ASA fellow is an honor signifying an individual's outstanding service to and leadership in the field of statistics and statistical science.
Calvin is being recognized by the ASA for his statistical theory and applications research, excellence in teaching and administration and significant leadership in consulting collaboration.
Founded in 1839, the American Statistical Association is a scientific and educational society devoted to advancing the statistics profession and promoting excellence in the application of statistical science to all aspects of human endeavor.
www.science.tamu.edu /story3.asp?storyID=277   (302 words)

  
 American Statistical Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
He was deeply involved in statistics being head of the American Economic Association, and the Census Director in both 1870 and in 1880.
The Publications of the American Statistical Association began publication in March 1888 with the first part containing a single article, namely Statistics of water power employed in manufacturing in the United States by George F Swain.
For a single volume in 1920-21 it was renamed the Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association and from 1922 it became the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/American_Statistical.html   (491 words)

  
 Albuquerque Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Gabriel Huerta, Representative to the American Statistical Association,
The Albuquerque Chapter of the American Statistical Association serves Northern New Mexico.
The course is jointly sponsored by the ASA, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UNM, Los Alamos National Labs, and Intel.
www.math.unm.edu /stat/stats_albq_asa.html   (314 words)

  
 American Statistical Association Honors 2 Texas A&M Profs
Recognized as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1994, he was honored with a College of Science Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching from the Association of Former Students in 1995.
In addition to his teaching, research and advising commitments, Hart currently serves his profession as an associate editor for "Test" as well as for the theory and methods section of "Journal of the American Statistical Association." He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Southern Methodist University.
According to H. Joseph Newton, professor of statistics and interim dean of the Texas A&M College of Science, the designation of fellow is a superlative honor in the association that for more than 75 years has signified an individual's outstanding service to and leadership in the field of statistical science.
www.science.tamu.edu /story3.asp?storyID=271   (391 words)

  
 Montana Chapter of American Statistical Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
She suggested that it would make sense for the Treasurer's position to run on the calendar year, since the financial reports to ASA are on a calendar year basis.
Starting in 2005, 75% of the Joint Statistical Meetings will be held in the Northern US or Canada.
ASA pamphlets are available (ASA Series "What is a Survey?").
www.math.montana.edu /stat/MTASA/minutes1998.html   (194 words)

  
 American Statistical Association - the nation's leading professional association for statistics and statisticians.
American Statistical Association - the nation's leading professional association for statistics and statisticians.
The ASA Committee on Law and Justice Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announces a research grant program for the analysis of BJS data.
Members and friends of the ASA may contribute to the statistics profession by financially supporting our mission and goals.
www.amstat.org   (412 words)

  
 American Statistical Association Style Guide
ASA style aims for compactness (which lessens the expense of typesetting and printing) with the least possible loss of readability.
ASA journals are copyrighted, and authors must sign a copyright transfer to ASA before publication.
ASA journal editors retain files on accepted manuscripts for at least six months after the date of publication or the date of the most recent correspondence, whichever is more recent.
www.maths.uwa.edu.au /~gregg/Styguides/ASAinst.html   (4255 words)

  
 UNLV Libraries: Selected Internet Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) is the bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce where economic and social change is chronicled, understood and explained.
The data is published on these pages in searchable databases, periodic reports, compilations of statistics and analyses that document the condition of individual institutions and identify and project financial, economic and industry trends as they relate to banking.
www.library.nevada.edu /subjects/business_internet.html   (6443 words)

  
 Kulka Named American Statistical Association Fellow - RTI International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Criteria used to select ASA Fellows included publications, positions held by the candidates in the organizations in which they are employed, activities within the ASA, membership and accomplishments in other societies, and other professional activities.
In addition, last year he was elected to a 2-year term as Associate Program and then Program Chair for the 2002 annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research held last month.
ASA is the second oldest professional society in the United States.
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 JSTOR: American Statistical Association
The journal contributes to the development and use of statistical methods in the agricultural sciences, the biological sciences (including biotechnology), and the environmental sciences (including those dealing with natural resources).
Articles in JASA focus on statistical applications, theory, and methods in economic, social, physical, engineering, and health sciences and on new methods of statistical education.
Its content features papers that describe new statistical techniques, illustrate innovative application of known statistical methods, or review methods, issues, or philosophy in a particular area of statistics or science, when such papers are consistent with the journal's mission.
www.jstor.org /journals/astata.html   (733 words)

  
 American Statistical Association National Meeting, August 1994
This collection of articles by leading statisticians and statistics educators is "elementary statistics from an advanced viewpoint." These are definitely not technical articles, but focus on conceptual issues of current interest in the statistical community relevant to topics that are (or should be) taught in introductory statistics.
A major part of this article is a report from the Committee for Undergraduate Statistics, a joint committee of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Statistical Association, appointed in 1990 and which Dr. Cobb chairs.
Co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the book is aimed primarily at people without any special knowledge of statistics, probability, or mathematics." Problems and discussion questions are included for each article.
it.stlawu.edu /~rlock/stats96/resource.html   (3810 words)

  
 American Statistical Association: Puget Sound Chapter: Meetings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The San Antonio Chapter of the American Statistical Association is currently soliciting nominations for the 2001 Don Owen Award.
He was Professor of Statistics at SMU for over 20 years, and he served as Department Chair from 1972 to 1979.
Owen was elected a Fellow of the ASA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
depts.washington.edu /psasa/donowen.html   (286 words)

  
 Robert L. Mason Named Ninety-Eighth President Of the American Statistical Association
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Statistical Association (ASA) is pleased to announce that Robert L. Mason, Institute Analyst, Southwest Research Institute, has assumed the office of President of the American Statistical Association, the largest and oldest professional statistical society in North America.
Mason received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from St. Mary's University in 1968, and a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Southern Methodist University in 1971.
In addition, he is an elected Fellow of the ASA as well as the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-10-2003/0001870030&EDATE=   (284 words)

  
 Journal of the American Statistical Association: Analysis of rank measures of association for ordinal data from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Journal of the American Statistical Association: Analysis of rank measures of association for ordinal data from longitudinal studies.
association between group and response are constructed at each time, and the covariance matrix of
The above preview is from Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 1, 1989.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:7991017&refid=holomed_1   (234 words)

  
 Bedrick Named Fellow of the American Statistical Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Edward J. Bedrick, professor of statistics at the University of New Mexico, will be named Fellow of the American Statistical Association during the annual awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings in New York City on Aug. 13.
The American Statistical Association (ASA), a scientific and educational society founded in Boston in 1839, is the second oldest professional society in the United States.
The ASA has a proud tradition of service to statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across a wealth of academic areas and applications.
www.unm.edu /news/Releases/June24bedrick.htm   (259 words)

  
 SOI Tax Stats - Papers - 1997 American Statistical Association Conference
This section contains papers written by members of the Statistics of Income Division of IRS and presented at the 1997 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association.
This paper attempts to demonstrate some of the consequences of regrouping the traditional Statistics of Income file--either by aggregating the data by household, or by dis-aggregating them into data for individuals--and to hint at some of the analysis these regroupings will allow.
Data from the majorĀ  Statistics of Income (SOI) business programs are compiled and examined from 1985 through 1994, the most recent year for which complete data are available.
www.irs.gov /taxstats/article/0,,id=112193,00.html   (284 words)

  
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There is even concern that the "potential uses" restriction could prohibit the use of statistical or other analytic techniques on protected data, especially if a resulting statistical product has commercial value.
Furthermore, because it is impossible to anticipate the direction and nature of all research, the approach of exempting scientific research is fundamentally flawed.
M.R.C. Greenwood, President, American Association for the Advancement of Science Dr.
www.cerias.purdue.edu /homes/spaf/WIPO/ssl.txt   (664 words)

  
 American Statistical Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ASA is the second oldest professional association in the United States (after the American Philosophical Society).
Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)
This page was last modified 11:00, 15 March 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Statistical_Association   (113 words)

  
 SOI Tax Stats - Papers - 2002 American Statistical Association Conference
This paper includes an overview of the IRS's Statistics of Income Program, a description of the types of locality income data the IRS offers, the electronic formats available, the years covered by the data, and the sources and limitations of the data.
Federal estate tax returns are a rich source of information on the assets and liabilities associated with decedents, as well as data on beneficiaries of estates.
When linked with income tax data for the decedents and their beneficiaries, the resulting data base provides a unique opportunity to study a variety of important economic issues relating to the transfer of wealth and the accumulation of capital.  In this paper, steps taken to weight the linked files are detailed.
www.irs.gov /taxstats/article/0,,id=112127,00.html   (880 words)

  
 Marketing Research, American Marketing Association member | Links: CASRO, American Statistical Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The Association is also an important forum where marketing researchers discuss common problems, share ideas, and combine their collective efforts to build industry information and reduce major problems and threats.
The Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO) is the trade association of survey research businesses, representing nearly 200 companies and research operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The American Statistical Association is a scientific and educational society founded in 1839 with the following mission: To promote excellence in the application of statistical science across the wealth of human endeavor.
www.appiananalytics.com /partners/associations.htm   (201 words)

  
 Holford Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association: Yale School of Public Health
Theodore Holford, Ph.D., Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Head of the Division of Biostatistics, was recently elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
The ASA is a scientific and educational society established to promote excellence in the application of statistics.
Fellows are elected based on their contributions to the advancement of the field of statistics, their leadership within the field, publications, involvement in ASA activities, and other professional activities and memberships.
info.med.yale.edu /eph/news/may05/holford.html   (183 words)

  
 ASA Ethics Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Draft of Revised ASA Ethics Guidelines, October 8, 1998.
Draft of Revised ASA Ethics Guidelines, December 1, 1998.
Draft of Revised ASA Ethics Guidelines, December 22,1998.
www.tcnj.edu /~asaethic   (144 words)

  
 Annals of the History of Computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
1002--1005 J. Crowley Asymptotic normality of a new nonparametric statistic for use in organ transplant studies.
653--661 Stephen C. Hora and W. Conover The ${F}$ statistic in the two-way layout with rank-score transformed data 668--673 Ronald L. Iman and Stephen C. Hora and W. Conover Comparison of asymptotically distribution-free procedures for the analysis of complete blocks.
Y. Vardi and L. Shepp and L. Kaufman A statistical model for positron emission tomography.
www.math.utah.edu:8080 /ftp/pub/tex/bib/toc/jamstatassoc.html   (6136 words)

  
 Journal of the American Statistical Association: On the Probability of Observing Misleading Statistical ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Specifically, it gives to the discipline of statistics a precise and objective measure of the strength of statistical evidence supporting one probability distribution vis-a-vis another.
What makes statistical evidence valuable to science is that this cannot occur very often.
The above preview is from Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 1, 2000.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:66171798&refid=holomed_1   (219 words)

  
 American Sociological Association | Home
PhDs in applied and research settings recently received invitations from ASA Executive Officer Sally T. Hillsman to participate in a multi-organizational study of the skills, graduate school training, productivity, and career satisfaction they experienced.
Thus far, 800 sociologists responded to the survey and have lauded ASA for this effort to increase the visibility of PhDs not in the professorate.
ASA members may log in to the member-only page to contribute to discussion topics, including:
www.asanet.org   (346 words)

  
 American Statistical Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
We strived to reflect the needs and wishes of members (student, long-term, new, and potential), students and their teachers (graduate, undergraduate, K-12), ASA staff, the general public, and the news media.
The redesign began in earnest during my Fall 2000 visit to ASA, when a team of enthusiastic ASA staff emerged, including Megan Murphy, Megan Kruse, Amy Farris, Tim Gill and Carol Edwards, advised by myself and Mary Fleming.
These prototypes endured extensive review by ASA staff and by representatives of the ASA Board of Directors, Council of Sections, Council of Chapters, Electronic Communications Committee, and the Editorial Board of Amstat Online.
www.cs.wisc.edu /~yandell/amstat/AmstatNews/october.html   (531 words)

  
 American Statistical Association
The Statistical Graphics Section is co-sponsoring the course "Creating More Effective Graphs", presented by Naomi Robbins.
The Statistical Graphics Section, along with Computing and Statistics and the Environment, are sponsoring a Data Expo for JSM 2006.
These posters are ideal for display on the walls of academic departments where statisticians, students, and generally people from all areas pass by.
www.amstat-online.org /sections/graphics   (284 words)

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