• 2013
  • May Newsletter
  • April Newsletter
  • February Newsletter
• 2012
  • November Newsletter
  • October Newsletter
  • ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair: On March 31, 2012, the San Antonio Chapter sent judges to the 2012 EMTSEF. The judging selected three winners who showed excellence in the use of statistical methods for the Senior Division Projects (9-12 grades). The activity is sponsored by the American Statistical Association.
  • Alamo Regional Science Fair: On March 5, 2012, the San Antonio Chapter sent judges to the 2012 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The judging selected those Senior Division Projects (grades 9-12) that showed excellence in the use of statistical methods, sponsored by the American Statistical Association.
  • Don Owen Award: On March 2nd, 2012, the San Antonio Chapter vice president Jonathan Gelfond presented the Don Owen Award to Professor George McCabe, for his outstanding contributions to statistical research, applications, and teaching. The award ceremony was held at the 2012 Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS), held at Lamar University, March 2-3.
  • March Newsletter The Chapter held several meetings with speakers from local and out of the State. All the following events were held at the UTSA main campus. On November 8, 2011, a seminar was presented by Dr. Brad H. Pollock, the chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, titled “Small Area Analysis of Primary Liver Cancer Incidence in Bexar County, Texas.” On December 1, 2011, a presentation was given by Dr. Dennis Lin, a University distinguished professor of Supply Chain and Statistics from the Department of Statistics of the Pennsylvania State University. He presented “Recent Advances in Computer Experiments.” On January 20, 2012, a talk was given by Dr. Robert McCulloch, professor of Statistics from the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management of the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. McCulloch presented “Bayesian Additive Regression Trees and Parallel Computation.” On February 10, 2012, a talk was given by Dr. Joel Edmund Michalek, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, titled “A Fourier and Wavelet Analysis of Serial Glucose Measurements.”
• 2011
  • October Newsletter The Chapter's November meeting will be held at UTSA on Tuesday, November 8th at 8:00pm. At the meeting, Dr. Brad Pollock, the Department chair of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, will give a talk entitled "Small Area Analysis of Primary Liver Cancer Incidence in Bexar County.": Please see flyer for more information.
  • June Newsletter
  • March 2011 Newsletter: The Chapter's April meeting will be held at UTSA on Friday, April 1st at 2:30 pm. At the 2:30 meeting Dr. Tharanga Rajapakshe, School of Management, The University of Dallas, will give a talk entitled "On the Tradeoff Between Remanufacturing and Recycling." See flyer for more information. We will gather afterwards at Mimi’s Cafe for happy hour and dinner at 6 pm. Dinner will consist of soup or salad, entrée, dessert and beverage for $15. A vegetarian option will also be available. Children and families are welcome. Please RSVP to John Schoolfield at schoolfield@uthscsa.edu by Monday March 28th .

  • February 2011 Newsletter: The Chapter's first meeting of 2011 will be Tuesday, February 22nd, and feature a talk by Dr. Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University, entitled "Trivial Mathematics but Deep Statistics: Simpson’s Paradox and Its Impact on Your Life." The meeting will begin with a mixer at 6:30 pm and Dr. Meng's talk is at 7 pm. See flyer for more information.
• 2010
  • November 2010 Newsletter. NOTE: Due to circumstances beyond the Chapter's control, the November 2010 Chapter meeting has been rescheduled and it will be November 30th. Also, the speaker and topic have changed as well. David Han, University of Texas at San Antonio, will give a talk entitled "Optimal Progressive Type-II Censoring Schemes for Nonparametric Confidence Intervals of Quantiles". The meeting begins with a mixer at 6:30 pm. See flyer for more information.
  • September 2010 Newsletter. It contains an attached flyer about the October 5, 2010, talk by Edward Salinas, CME Group Inc. and UTSA's Department of Management Science and Statistics, entitled "Some Applications Of Statistical Techniques to Problems In Phylogeny." See flyer for more information.
  • June 2010 Newsletter
  • March 2010 Newsletter with an attached flyer about the March 29, 2010, talk by Sastry Pantula, ASA President, entitled "GIVE to ASA." The meeting will begin with a mixer at 6:30 pm and Dr. Pantula's talk is at 7 pm. See flyer for more information. A second attachment provides information about the April 9-10, 2010, COTS conference.
  • February 2010 Newsletter with an attached flyer about the February 17, 2010, talk by Janet Buckingham, Staff Analyst, Southwest Research Institute entitled Insights into Statistics in an R&D Culture. Talk will be at 7 pm at UTSA. See flyer for more information.
• 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
  • December 2008 Newsletter and Attachment: the University of Incarnate Word's new graduate degree program, a Master of Science in Research Statistics
  • October 2008 Newsletter
  • March 2008 Newsletter
  • February 2008 Newsletter
  • January 2008 Newsletter
• 2007
  • October 2007 Newsletter and Attachment: UTSA's Information Session on PhD in Applied Statistics
  • May 2007 Newsletter
  • April 2007 Newsletter
  • February 2007 Newsletter
• 2006
  • November 2006 Newsletter
  • June 2006 Newsletter
  • April 2006 Newsletter
  • February 2006 Newsletter
• 2005
  • November 2005 Newsletter
  • September 2005 Newsletter
  • May 2005 Newsletter
  • February 2005 Newsletter
  • January 2005 Newsletter
• 2004
  • September 2004 Newsletter
  • June 2004 Newsletter
  • March 2004 Newsletter
  • January 2004 Newsletter

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• The June 2011 issue of Amstat News contained two articles about the Chapter's activities.
  • The 2011 Don Owen Award was presented to Dr. Dennis K. J. Lin, university distinguished professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University. The award, given by the San Antonio Chapter, is sponsored by Taylor and Francis publishing group.
  • The Council of Texas Statisticians (COTS) sponsored an award at the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair (EMTSEF). The fair was held in San Antonio, Texas at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center on April 2, 2011. The award was for “The Best Use of Statistics in a Science Project”. A team of judges from the San Antonio Chapter that helped select three senior high division projects that showed excellence in the use and knowledge of statistical methods included Keying Ye, John Schoolfield, Danny Sharon, Ken Williams, Michael Lecocke, Pete Donahoe, David Han, and Howard Monroe. See the Amstat News article about this award.
• The November 2010 issue of Amstat News contained a Call for Nominations for the 2011 Don Owen Award.
• An article announcing the 2010 Don Owen Award winner, Rice University's Javier Rojo, has been posted on ASA's website.
• The May 2010 issue of Amstat News contained an article about ASA President Sastry Pantula's visit to the Chapter on March 29th and his talk "GIVE to ASA."
• 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

• 2013
  • Thursday, April 18, 7:00pm: Dr. Matthew A. Hibbs, Department of Computer Science, Trinity University. Location: Trinity University.
  • Friday, April 12, 2:30pm: Dr. Balakrishnan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University. Location: UTSA.
• 2012
  • Friday, November 30, 2pm: Dr. Javier Rojo, Department of Statistics, Rice University
  • Friday, October 12th, 2pm: Dr. Eddy Kwessi, Mathematics Department, Trinity University
  • Friday, Februry 10th, 12pm: Dr. Joel Michalek, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • Friday, Jenuary 20th, 10:30am: Dr. Robert McCulloch, Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin
• 2011
  • Thursday, December 1st. 8pm: Dr. Dennis K.J. Lin, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, presented "Eecent Advances in Computer Experiments.:
  • Tuesday, November 8th, 8:00pm: Dr. Bradley Polloch, The University of Texas Healther Science Center at San Antonio, presented "Small Area Analysis of Primary Liver Cancer Incidence in Bexar County."
    
    Location: UTSA Main Campus, Buesiness Building, BB 4.02.10.
    
    
  • Friday, April 1st, 2:30 pm: Dr. Tharanga Rajapakshe, School of Management, The University of Dallas, will give a talk entitled "On the Tradeoff Between Remanufacturing and Recycling."

    Location: UTSA Main Campus, Business Building, BB 3.06.04

  • Tuesday, February 22nd, 7 pm: Dr. Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University, will give a talk entitled "Trivial Mathematics but Deep Statistics: Simpson’s Paradox and Its Impact on Your Life."

    Location: UTSA Main Campus, Business Building, University Room, BB 2.06.04

• 2010
  • Tuesday, November 30, 7 pm: David Han, University of Texas at San Antonio, will give a talk entitled "Optimal Progressive Type-II Censoring Schemes for Nonparametric Confidence Intervals of Quantiles."

    Location: UTSA Main Campus, Business Building, Executive Conference Room, BB 4.02.10

  • Tuesday, October 5, 7 pm at UTSA: Edward Salinas, CME Group Inc. and UTSA's Department of Management Science and Statistics, will give a talk entitled "Some Applications Of Statistical Techniques to Problems In Phylogeny."

    Location: UTSA Main Campus, Business Building, Executive Conference Room, BB 4.02.10

  • Monday, March 29th, 7 pm at UTSA (mixer before meeting at 6:30): Sastry Pantula, ASA President, will give a talk entitled "GIVE to ASA."

    Location: UTSA Loop 1604 Campus, Applied Engineering and Technology Building, AET 1.100C

  • Wednesday, February 17th, 7 pm, at UTSA: Janet Buckingham, Staff Analyst, Southwest Research Institute, will give a talk entitled "Insights into Statistics in an R&D Culture."

    Location: UTSA Loop 1604 Campus, Business Building, Executive Conference Room, BB 4.02.10

• 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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ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair Winners

• 2013 On March 28, 2013, the San Antoni Chapter sent judges to the 2013 EMTSEF. The judging selected five winners (3 places)who showed excellence in use of statistical methods for the Senior Division Projects (9-12 grades). The activity is sponsored by the American Statistical Association and the Council of Texas Statisticians.
• 2012: On March 31, 2012, the San Antoni Chapter sent judges to the 2012 EMTSEF. The judging selected three winners who showed excellence in use of statistical methods for the Senior Division Projects (9-12 grades). The activity is sponsored by the American Statistical Association.

• 2011
• 2010
• 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

• 2013 Fair: The San Antonio Chapter sent judges to the 2013 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The judging was held at St. Mary’s University on March 5 to help select those Senior Division Projects (grades 9-12) that showed excellence in the use of statistical methods. Many thanks to these members who volunteered to judge: David Han, Phillip Middleton, Howard Monroe, Norma Ketchum, Jon Gelfond, John Schoolfield, and Ken Williams. See more information here.

• 2011 Fair: The San Antonio Chapter sent judges to the 2011 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The judging was held at St. Mary’s University on March 7 to help select those Senior Division Projects (grades 9-12) that showed excellence in the use of statistical methods. Many thanks to these members who volunteered to judge: Norma Ketchum, Keying Ye, John Schoolfield, Danny Sharon, and Howard Monroe. Howard Monroe represented the chapter at the Awards Ceremony on March 8, 2011. The following awards were presented:
  • First Place and $125 to Jaime Parra from Health Careers High School for his project titled, “Association between genetic variation of the fibrinogen gene and HIV-1 susceptibility”;
  • Second Place and $75 to Amy Robinson from Keystone High School, for her project titled, “Astronomical image processing: eliminating random atmosphere noise and enhancing low resolution images”; and
  • Third Place and $50 to Carolina Lopez-Trevino of John Jay Science Academy for her project titled, “Synergistic neuroprotection of astrocytes against oxidative stress-related injury and degeneration”.
• 2010 Fair: The San Antonio Chapter sent judges to the 2010 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair at St. Mary’s University on March 9 to help select those Senior Division Projects (grades 9-12) that showed excellence in the use of statistical methods.  Many thanks to these members who volunteered to judge: Ken Williams, Anjelita Cadena, Michael Lecocke, Norma Ketchum, Carolyn Oakley, and Howard Monroe.  At the Awards Ceremony on March 10, 2010 the San Antonio Chapter recognized the following students and their projects:
  • First Place and a $250 savings bond to Carolyn Ye from Keystone Upper High School for her project titled, “Effects of Acidity and Salt on the Survival Rate of Group Streptococcus”;
  • Second Place and $150 in savings bonds ($75 each) to the team of Brigette Lea and Derek Lam, both from Keystone Upper High School, for their project titled, “An investigation of Rain-X© and Sunscreen Coating: Protection Against Radiation-Induced Oxidation Stress”; and
  • Third Place and a $100 savings bond to Neil Redfield of John Jay Science Academy for his project titled, “Algebra: Not the Same Old Game”.
• 2009 Fair: The San Antonio Chapter sent volunteer judges to the 2009 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair at St. Mary’s University on March 10th to help select those senior high division projects that showed excellence in the use of statistical methods. Volunteer judges this year were Howard Monroe, Ken Williams, Carolyn Oakley, Keying Ye, Yi Cao, Mike Lecocke and Norma Ketchum.  The Chapter made three awards:
  • First place and $250 in savings bonds was awarded to the team of Ernest Thomas and Huzeifa Badshah from Health Careers High School for their project titled "Minimizing Lawn Mower Emissions.”
  • Second place and a $150 savings bond was awarded to Eric VanDyk from Churchill High School whose project was titled "Multitasking: Does Cell Phone Usage Affect Performance?”
  • Third place and a $100 savings bond was awarded to Wolf Honore from Keystone High School whose project was titled "Effects of CO2 on the Nutritional Content of Brassica juncea.”  
• 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 was awarded 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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• 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:

  • 2013: Leslie M. Moore, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • 2012: George McCabe, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

  • 2011: Dennis K. J. Lin, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University

  • 2010: Javier Rojo, Professor of Statistics, Rice University

  • 2009: Richard A. Johnson, Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin

  • 2008: N. “Bala” Balakrishnan, Professor of Statistics, McMasters University in Canada

  • 2007: Jeffrey D. Hart, Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University

  • 2006: Jerome P. Keating, Professor in the Management Science and Statistics Department, College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio

  • 2005: S. Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University
  • 2004: Wayne Woodward, Southern Methodist University
  • 2003: Boris Iglewicz, Temple University
  • 2002: James A. Calvin, Texas A&M University
  • 2001: Henry L. Gray, Southern Methodist University, and 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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• Future COTS meetings:
  • 2013 - Rice University, Houston (Houston ASA)
  • 2014 - Dallas
  • 2015 - Austin or maybe Corpus Christi
  • 2016 - San Antonio

• Prior COTS meetings:
  • 2012: The 2012 Conference of Texas Statisticians was held on March 2nd and 3rd at Lamar University. Conference chair was Dr. Kumer Pial Das.
  • 2011: The 2011 Conference of Texas Statisticians was held on March 25th and 26th at Texas A&M University. Conference chair was Dr. Webster West.
  • 2010: The 2010 Conference was held at Baylor University on April 9th and 10th. Conference chair was Dr. James Stamey.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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