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Newsletter and Amstat News Items
- 2009
- November 2009 Newsletter with attached flyer about the Thursday, November 19th talk by Dr. Jesús Cuéllar Fuentes, School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, University of the Incarnate Word, entitled "Statistical Monitoring of a Process with Autocorrelated Output and Observable Autocorrelated Measurement Error."
- October 2009 Newsletter with attached flyer about the October 15th talk by Mr. John Garza, Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research, and Dr. Jerome Keating, UTSA Dept of Management Science and Statistics, entitled "Using Poisson Regression to Model and Estimate Fertility in Texas."
- April 2009 Newsletter
- March 2009 Newsletter and attached flyer about the Chapter's April 7th meeting and talk by Joel Michalek, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UTHSCSA,entitled "Misclassification and Confounding in the Air Force Health Study."
- February 2009 Newsletter
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
Amstat News Items about Chapter's Activities and Members
- The September 2009 issue of Amstat News contained an interview with UTSA's Nandini Kannan.
- ASA President, Tony Lachenbruch, invited two former ASA Presidents, including San Antonio's Bob Mason, to reminisce about their terms in his November 2008 President's Corner article in Amstat News.
- The October 2008 issue of Amstat News
reported on individual and team winners at the JSM's Stat Bowl 2008. The University of Texas at San Antonio team (John Garza and Dan Polhamus) came out as the team winners.
- The June 2008 issue of Amstat News contained two articles that reported on activities of the Chapter.
- The first article, entitled Best Use of Statistics Awards Given at Science Fairs, summarized the Chapter's awards for projects that showed excellence in the use of statistical methods. The Chapter's made awards at the 2008 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair as well as the 2008 ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair. This article also summarized the activities at the 2008 Conference of Texas Statisticians which was hosted by The University of Texas at San Antonio.
- The other article featured the Don B. Owen Award. The recipient in 2008 was N. "Bala" Balakrishnan, a professor of statistics at McMasters University in Canada. This was awarded at the 2008 Conference of Texas Statisticians.
- The November 2004 issue of Amstat News
contains an article entitled
San Antonio Brothers Mix Science and Statistics With Winning Results
. It features Wesley and Julian Hong.
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Meetings
- 2009
- Thursday, November 19th at 7 pm: Dr. Jesús Cuéllar Fuentes, School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, University of the Incarnate Word, is the presenter. His talk is entitled "Statistical Monitoring of a Process with Autocorrelated Output and Observable Autocorrelated Measurement Error."
Location: UTSA Loop 1604 Campus, Business Building, Executive Conference Room BB 4.02.10
- Thursday, October 15th at 7 pm: Mr. John Garza, Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research, and Dr. Jerome Keating, UTSA Dept of Management Science and Statistics, will give a talk entitled "Using Poisson Regression to Model and Estimate Fertility in Texas."
Location: UTSA Loop 1604 Campus, Business Building, Room BB 4.02.10
- Tuesday, April 7th at 7:00 pm (6:30 pm refreshments): Joel Michalek, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UTHSCSA is the speaker. His talk is entitled "Misclassification and Confounding in the Air Force Health Study."
Location: UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., Medical School Building, Room 309L
- Thursday, February 5th at 7 pm (6:30 pm refreshments): "How System Infrastructures of Today Change the Approach to Data Analysis"; Speakers are Erika Esparza and Gabe Cano, Altarum Institute.
Location: UTSA Loop 1604 Campus, Business Building, Room 4.02.12 BB
- 2008
- Tuesday, December 9th at 7:00 pm (6:30 pm refreshments): Linda Gann, Secondary Mathematics Instructional Specialist, Northside ISD, is the speaker. Her talk is entitled "Statistical Opportunities in Grades 6 through 12."
LOCATION: UTSA Loop 1604 Campus, John Peace Library, Room JPL 4.03.08
PARKING: Between 6:30 - 9:30 pm campus visitors can park without a permit in either Lot 4 or Lot 3 Faculty/Staff A or B spaces (but NOT the 24 Hr Reserved spaces). For a campus map please visit: http://utsa.edu/parking/pdfs/09%20Visitor%20Brochure.pdf.
- Thursday, October 30th at 7:00 pm (6:15 pm refreshments): Dr. Javier Rojo, Professor of Statistics at Rice University, will give a talk entitled "Tail Inference for Probability Distribution Functions."
LOCATION: UTSA Loop 1604 Campus, John Peace Library, Room JPL 4.03.08
PARKING: Between 6:30 - 9:30 pm campus visitors can park without a permit in either Lot 4 or Lot 3 Faculty/Staff A or B spaces (but NOT the 24 Hr Reserved spaces). For a campus map please visit: http://www.utsa.edu/parking/pdfs/Visitor.pdf.
- Thursday, February 7th at 7:30 pm: Dr. William B. Smith will speak at the School of Public Health, 8550 Datapoint Drive. Dr. Smith’s talk is titled “A Statistician’s View of Analytics and our Profession.”
Dr. Smith has had a distinguished career as a Professor of Statistics at Texas A&M, as a statistical consultant, and as Executive Director of ASA. His CV is posted at http://stat.tamu.edu/~smith/vitaws.html.
To locate the meeting site please consult the map for the School of Public Health. Remember that all San Antonio ASA Chapter meetings are open to all interested individuals.
Please also join us for dinner prior to the meeting at Alamo Café on IH-10 at 6:00 pm. Please phone David Smith with your questions or dinner RSVP at 210-562-5512 or 210-492-9041.
- 2007
- Thursday, May 17 at 5:30 pm: Joint social between the American Statistical Association and the American Marketing Association at The County Line (10101 IH-10 West).
- Thursday, May 10th, 6:30 pm, San Antonio ASA Chapter’s end of year banquet: Speaker: Elizabeth Haro, Health Careers High School, presented her science fair project that won 1st place for best use of statistics at the Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
- Thursday, April 26th, 7 pm (6:30 pm refreshments): Dr. Simon Sheather, Professor and Department of Statistics Head at Texas A&M University, “Using Statistical Methods to Understand the Palate and Influence of Robert M. Parker, Jr.”
- 2006
- Thursday, December 7: Two presentations co-authored
by Stephen Blanchard, Our Lady of the Lake University; Benjamin S. Bradshaw, University of Texas School
of Public Health; and David W. Smith, University of Texas School of Public Health:
(1) The "March" of Infection-A Cohort Study of Influenza and Tuberculosis Over the Twentieth Century
and (2) Influenza of 1918 and the Rise of Ischemic Heart Disease
- May 10th short course: Privacy, Confidentiality, and
the Protection of Health Data: A Statistical Perspective on Data Sharing
- 2005
- Wednesday, November 16: Donna Pauler Ankerst, Ph.D.,
gave a talk on "The Operating
Characteristics of Prostate-specific Antigen (PSA) Results
from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial" at the School of Public
Health. Dr. Ankerst is from the Institute for Medical Informatics,
Biometry, and Epidemiology University of Munich, Munich, Germany and
the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. For more
information go to the description of her
talk.
- Thursday, September 29: S. Lynne Stokes, Professor at
Southern Methodist University and winner of the 2005 Don Owen Award,
discussed "Resolving the Tension Between Your Privacy and Researchers'
Need to Know," at this dinner meeting. Read
about our speaker.
- Wednesday, March 9, 2005: The San Antonio Chapter of the American Statistical
Association and the ASA Council of Chapters sponsored a
traveling course in San Antonio, "Applied Nonlinear Statistical Methods".
It was taught by Dr. Timothy E. O'Brien.
- Tuesday, March 1, 2005: ASA President, Fritz Scheuren,
spoke on "The Role of Statisticians in Promoting Human Rights."
This lecture was held at UTSA, Loop 1604 Campus, Business Building
Room BB 2.01.10 at 7:30 PM.
- Friday, January 28, 2005:A short course, "Fitting Tree Models Using
the rpart Library: An Introduction to Classification Tree Models in the Statistical Package R,"
was given by Dr. Steven E Stern, Associate Professor, School of Finance and Applied Statistics,
The Australian National University. It was held at the Allied Health Building, South
Texas Medical Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Drive from 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM.
See January 2005 Newsletter for
more information.
- 2004
- Tuesday, June 29, 2004: Bob Mason, the only San Antonio
chapter member to ever serve as the national ASA president, spoke
on the future of statistics. His talk included a portion of his Presidential
Address given at the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings. He also
provided an "insider's view" on what it's like to be the ASA president.
This dinner meeting was held at Alamo Café at 7 PM.
- Thursday January 22, 2004: A "Micro-JSM" meeting was held
in Lecture Hall 3.102A at the Medical School of the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM.
See January 2004 Newsletter for
more information.
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Exxon-Mobile Texas Science and Engineering Fair Winners
- 2009
- 2008: The Chapter sent volunteer judges to the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair which was held at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center on April 11th. Judges who helped select projects in the senior division that showed the best use of statistics were Chris Shang, Pete Donahoe, Carolyn Oakley, Howard Monroe and Norma Ketchum. The Council of Texas Statisticians provided the monetary awards. Awards were:
- First place and a $250 savings bond went to the team of Steven Schroeder and Huzeifa Badshah both from Health Careers High School (San Antonio) for their project "Minimizing Lawn Mower Emissions".
- Second place and a $150 savings bond went to Vivian Lee from Vista Ridge High School (Cedar Park, TX near Austin) for her project "A Study of Varying Harmonic Spectrum Exposure on Students' Concentration as Assessed via Fourier Analyses and Various Statistical Tests".
- A tie for third place and a $100 savings bond went to each of Neela Thangada from Keystone High School (San Antonio) for her project "Identifying Genes Responsible for Resistance against Powdery Scab Disease in the Solanum Tuberosum Using Semi-Quantative Polymerace Chain Reaction" and to Stephanie Simcox from McGregor High School (McGregor, TX near Waco) for her project "Effects of Antioxidants in Response to Ultraviolet Radiation in Drosphila Melanogaster."
- 2007: The San Antonio Chapter sent volunteer judges to the 2007 Texas State Science Fair held in San Antonio on April 6th. High school projects from all over the state were reviewed for excellence in the use of statistical methods by Howard Monroe, Johnny Weismuller and Norma Ketchum. First place and a $250 savings bond went to Kenneth Barshop of San Antonio (Alamo Heights High School) for his project titled “AIDS Susceptibility on the Human Genome: TSG101”. Second place and $150 savings bond went to Sonia Abichandani of Houston (Clear Lake High School) for her project titled “Monte Carlo Traveling Salesman”. A tie for third place and $50 in savings bonds each went to the following two students: Cesar Torres of El Paso (Americas High School, project titled “Global Warming and the World of Tomorrow”) and Elizabeth Haro of San Antonio (Health Careers High School, project titled “The Anti-proliferative Effect of a Novel Glycosylated Human Growth Hormone Isoform in Human Breast Cancer Cells.”)
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Alamo Regional Science and Engineering
Fair
- 2008 Fair:
The San Antonio Chapter sent volunteer judges to the 2008 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair at St. Mary’s University on March 8th to help select those senior division projects that showed excellence in the use of statistical methods. Volunteer judges this year were Howard Monroe, Ken Williams, Pete Donahoe, Carolyn Oakley, Keying Ye and Norma Ketchum. The San Antonio Chapter made the following awards:
- First place and $250 in savings bonds to the team of Steven Schroeder and Huzeifa Badshah from Health Careers High School for their project titled "Minimizing Fuel Emissions Using Response Surface Analysis and Excel Solver.”
- Second place and a $150 savings bond was awarded to Kenneth Barshop from St. Mary’s Hall Upper School whose project was titled "AIDS Susceptibility on the Human Genome: TSG01.”
- Third place and a $100 savings bond was awarded to Navid Leelani of Health Careers High School whose project was titled "Combination Height/Weight Ratio.”
- 2007 Fair: Judging took place on Friday, March 16, 2007 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. The location was St. Mary’s University, Bill Greehey Arena, in San Antonio. Judging coordinator was Howard Monroe
(monroe2@satx.rr.com;210-421-7547). Contact Howard for more information.
- 2006 Fair: Judging was done on Saturday, March 11, 2006 from
8:30 am to 12:30 pm. A catered lunch was provided free of charge.
The location was St. Mary's University, Bill Greehey Arena, in San Antonio.
Judging coordinator was Howard Monroe (hmonroe2@satx.rr.com; 210-421-7547).
Judges were Bill Alley, Jacobina Alley, Mark Hager, Norma Ketchum, Howard Monroe,
Anuradha Roy, David Smith, and Ken Williams. The following awards were presented:
- First place and a $250 savings bond was awarded to Adam Shadfan of Keystone High School
whose project was titled "The Effects of Pterstibene and Resveratrol on
Triticum aestivum and Phaseolus vulgaris Subjected to Drought Stress."
- Second place and a $150 savings bond was awarded to Anakaren Parga
from Jay Science and Engineering Academy whose project was
titled "Correlation Between White Matter Lesions and Aging."
- Third place and a $100 savings bond was awarded to Alicia Abigail
Perez of Jay Science and Engineering Academy whose project was
titled "The Conduciveness of Various Surfaces on Fingerprints."
- Seven honorable mentions were also recognized.
- 2005 Fair:
The Chapter sent volunteers to judge entries at the 2005 Alamo
Regional Science and Engineering Fair which was held at the
Municipal Auditorium. Judging was done
on Monday, March 7, 2005. The Chapter's Judging Coordinator was
Howard Monroe (hmonroe2@satx.rr.com; 210-656-9058).
- 2004 Fair: The 2004 Alamo Regional Science and
Engineering Fair was held March 8th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm.
The San Antonio Chapter sent volunteer judges
to the 2004 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair to help
select those senior division projects that showed excellence in the
use of statistical methods.
Learn about the winners!
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Employment Opportunities
As a service to our members, the San Antonio Chapter of the American
Statistical Association provides notification of statistically-related
employment opportunities. Job openings are listed for a month. If you have
information about recent job openings you think could be of value to the San
Antonio statistics community please send email to Webmaster Ginny deWolf at
dewolf@ktc.com.
Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics:
The Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics starting January 1, 2010. The position is for the Spring, 2010 semester, but may be renewed for the 2010-2011 academic year. For a more complete description and application information, please see
TAMUCC's
website.
Senior Statistician:
An executive search consulting firm, Zingaro & Company, specializes in the search and selection of executives for the healthcare industry. Its client, an international contract research organization with offices in India and Chicago, IL, is looking for dynamic individuals interested in joining the Statistics and SAS Programming team located in Chicago. They are seeking candidates with a Master’s degree, PhD preferred, and a minimum of 5 years of pharmaceutical clinical trials experience in statistics, biostatistics, or a closely related field ( see job profile). For more information contact, Tracy Wolfe, Vice President, Zingaro & Company, 21936 Briarcliff Drive, Briarcliff, TX 78669-2012. Phone (512) 327-7275; Fax (512) 327-1774
- Web-based resources of professional associations:
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Don Owen Award
Background: Each year the ASA's San Antonio Chapter presents the Don Owen
Award to a statistician who embodies the three-fold accomplishments of
Professor Owen: excellence in research, statistical consultation,
and service to the statistical community. Nominations are solicited
from all ASA chapters.
The Don Owen Award, cosponsored by Taylor & Francis, is named
for Donald B. Owen, who, before his death in 1991, was Distinguished
Professor of Statistics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas. Professor Owen's long and extremely productive career, including
research, consultation, and service, is the ideal against which
nominees are compared.
Previous Winners:
2009 Award: Richard A. Johnson, Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin.
2008 Award: Professor N. “Bala” Balakrishnan, Professor of Statistics, McMasters University in Canada
2007 Award: Dr. Jeffrey D. Hart, Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University
2006
Award: Dr. Jerome P. Keating, Professor in the Management
Science and Statistics Department, College of Business, University of
Texas at San Antonio
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2005 Award: Dr. S. Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University
- 2004
Award: Dr. Wayne Woodward, Southern Methodist University
- 2003
Award: Dr. Boris Iglewicz, Temple University
- 2002
Award: Dr. James A. Calvin, Texas A&M University
- 2001 Award: Dr. Henry L. Gray, Southern Methodist University, and Dr. James M. Lucas, J.M. Lucas and Associates, Wilmington, Delaware
- 2000: No winner
- 1999: Anant M. Kshirsagar, University of Michigan
- 1998: James H. Matis, Texas A&M University
- 1997: Dallas E. Johnson, Kansas State University-Manhattan
- 1996: Ralph L. Kodell, National Center for Toxicological Research,
Jefferson, Arkansas
- 1995: Peter W. M. John, University of Texas at Austin
- 1994: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University, and Edmund A.
Gehan, formerly at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, and now at the Vincent Lombardi Cancer Center at
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
- 1993: David W. Scott, Rice University
- 1992: William B. Smith, Texas A&M University
- 1991: Richard F. Gunst, Southern Methodist University
- 1990: Emanuel Parzen, Texas A&M University
- 1989: Patrick L. Odell, Baylor University
- 1988: Ronald L. Iman, Sandia National Laboratories
- 1987: Ronald R. Hocking, Texas A&M University
- 1986: W.J. Conover, Texas Tech University
- 1985: James R. Thompson, Rice University
- 1984: Carl N. Morris, University of Texas at Austin, and William R.
Schucany, Southern Methodist University
- 1983: Robert L. Mason, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
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Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS)
- Future COTS meetings:
- 2010: Will be hosted by Baylor University.
- 2011: Will be hosted by the Southeast Texas ASA Chapter.
- Prior COTS meetings:
- 2009: The 2009 Conference of Texas Statisticians was held on March 27th and March 28th. It was hosted by Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. The chair for the Conference was Dr. Melinda Miller Holt, mxm014@shsu.edu.
- 2008: The 2008 Conference of Texas Statisticians was held in San Antonio on March 28th and March 29th at the Downtown Campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio. The conference coordinator was Dr. Nandini Kannan, nandini.kannan@utsa.edu. Prior to the start of this COTS conference a short course, "Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests for Doing and Teaching Statistics,” was taught by Professor Tim Hesterberg.
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2007: The 2007 Conference of Texas Statisticians was held at Baylor University's campus on March 30 and 31. The conference chair
was Dennis Johnston, Dennis_Johnston@baylor.edu.
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2006: The 2006 annual Conference of Texas Statisticians
was held Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1, at the
Thompson Center on the University of Texas campus in Austin.
The conference chair was Tom Sager, The University of Texas at Austin,
francis_galton13@yahoo.com.
- 2005:
The 25th annual Conference of Texas Statisticians was
held April 1-2, 2005, at Southern Methodist University. The
conference was jointly sponsored by Southern Methodist University and
the North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association.
The conference organizer was Ian Harris, Southern Methodist University, Department of
Statistical Sciences, Dallas, TX 75675-0332; 214-768-2454.
- 2004: The Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, hosted the 2004 COTS on March 26-27, 2004. The San Antonio Chapter's Don Owen Award (see above) was presented at the 2004 COTS' banquet. The Conference Organizer was Greg Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Statistics, Stephen F. Austin State University, gmiller@sfasu.edu.
- For more information about COTS and its history go to
the COTS website.
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Officers, Committees, and Contacts
- Officers:
- President (07/09-06/10): Ram Tripathi, University of Texas at San Antonio; ram.tripathi@utsa.edu; (210)458-5549
- Vice-President (07/09-06/10): John Schoolfield, UTHSCSA; schoolfield@uthscsa.edu; (210) 567-2128
- Treasurer (07/09-06/10): Carolyn J. Oakley, Federal Government (Retired); cjo@texas.net; (210)481-3473
- Secretary (07/09-06/10): Norma S. Ketchum, UTHSCSA;
ketchumn@uthscsa.edu; (210) 567-6141
- Council of Chapters Representative (2008-2010): Bob Mason, Southwest Research Institute; RMason@swri.edu; (210)522-2671
- Conference of Texas Statisticians Representative (2008-2010): Peter Olofsson, Trinity University; polofsso@trinity.edu;
(210)999-8244
- Webmaster (07/09-06/10): Virginia de Wolf, Federal Government (Retired); dewolf@ktc.com; (830)896-2545
- Immediate Past President: (07/09-06/10): Jerome Keating, University of Texas at San Antonio, Jerome.Keating@utsa.edu; (210)458-5370
- Committees: Committees established in the Chapter's Constitution:
- Executive Committee [Article V(a)]: The Executive Committee
shall consist of the President, Immediate Past-President, Vice
President, Secretary, Treasurer, and ASA Council Representative.
Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held whenever called
by the President or requested by a majority of the committee members.
- Awards Committee [Article V(b)]: The Awards Committee shall
be composed of the Vice President as Chairman and at least two
other members of the Chapter appointed by the President. The
committee shall set criteria for any awards to be given by
the Chapter and select the recipient or recipients for these awards.
- Contacts:
- Science Fair Judging Coordinator (including the Alamo Regional
Science and Engineering Fair): Howard Monroe (hmonroe2@satx.rr.com) or (210) 656-9058
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