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Vote Now in the ASA 2010 Election of Officers

Vote Now in the ASA 2010 Election of Officers You have until midnight May 17, 2010 (PDT) to vote in the 2010 ASA election of officers.

When you receive your email ballot, find your member number and your ballot control number. Then click here.

For those of you who do not have email addresses on file with the ASA you will be sent a paper ballot.

Candidate biographies can be found here.

Live Online Discussion on Status of Climate Change Science

Live Online Discussion on Status of Climate Change Science Richard L. Smith, L. Mark Berliner, and Peter Guttorp, the authors of the article: Statisticians Comment on Status of Climate Change Science in the March issue of Amstat News, are going to discuss their article online LIVE from noon to 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 31. Be sure to check back here or Amstat News online on the 31st for the link!

ASA Encourages Its U.S. Members to Fill Out and Return their Census Forms Promptly

Census forms began arriving the week of March 15 and ASA encourages all members in the United States to fill out and return their census questionnaires promptly. In joining this call to ASA members, ASA President Sastry Pantula stated, “Since the Census is the largest activity of the largest U.S. statistical agency, it is especially important for statisticians to support it.” The decennial census determines representation in the U.S. House of Representatives and is used for the allocation of federal funding for health care, education, and roads. Further, every percentage point increase in the mail-back participation rate saves roughly $100 million that would be spent for non-response follow up. Read More...

JASA Theory and Methods Call for Nominations of Two Co-Editors

The American Statistical Association invites nominations and applications for two editors to serve as Co-editors of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods. Established in 1888 and published quarterly in March, June, September, and December, the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) has long been considered a premier journal of statistical science. The Theory and Methods section publishes articles that make original contributions to the foundations, theoretical development, or methodology of statistics and probability. All submissions are rigorously refereed using a double-blind peer review process. Read full solicitation.

Help Stimulate Students’ Interest in Statistics: Announcing the ASA Hands-On Statistics Competition

The American Statistical Association will participate in the USA Science and Engineering Festival, October 23-24, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. We want your help to design hands-on activities to attract students to the ASA booth. The winning entry will receive a $750 prize, plus an expenses-paid trip for two to the festival. Two gold medal prizes of $500 also will be awarded.

Enter today! For more information, go to www.amstat.org/outreach/hands-on.cfm. First submissions due April 15.

Opportunities for ASA Members to Participate in National Lab Day

President Obama announced the establishment of National Lab Day, a nationwide movement to bring together stakeholders in communities of support where science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals and teachers work together to provide high-quality, hands-on, discovery-based lab experiences for students. ASA is participating in this program and offers ways for members to become involved in their communities. To learn more, visit the ASA-NLD resource page.

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ASA Community

The ASA is pleased to announce the newest benefit of membership, the ASA Community. The ASA Community provides an online setting for like-minded statisticians to connect with peers through tools that make it easy to communicate, collaborate, and share. Get started today at http://community.amstat.org!

Winner of Free ASA Membership

Congratulations to Lillie Jackson, winner of the February drawing for FREE ASA membership.

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The Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter Annual Symposium and Short Course

The Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of ASA announces its annual symposium Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods and the accompanying short course Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials to be presented by Allan Donner. The Symposium will take place at the Cerner Vision Center on Cerner Corporation's World Headquarters campus in Kansas City, Missouri on April 8-9, 2010. This event is sponsored by the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association, the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Kansas Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation. For more information and to register, visit the symposium web site.

The Biopharmaceutical Section Announces New Webinar in its Web-based Training Series

An Introduction to the Nonlinear Mixed Effects Model and Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Analysis
Marie Davidian (North Carolina State University)
Thursday, April 29, noon - 2:00 p.m. Eastern time

For more information and to register, visit the section’s web site.

Chicago Chapter of ASA Workshop: Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector Machines

The Chicago Chapter of ASA is hosting a workshop on Friday, March 26, titled Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector Machines at the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago. The workshop will be presented by Lutz Hamel from the University of Rhode Island. For more information and to register, visit the chapter’s web site.