Volume 17 (2009)

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Introducing the next Editor - John Gabrosek

I am pleased to announce the Professor John Gabrosek has been appointed the next Editor of JSE. John is a member of the Department of Statistics at Grand Valley State University and has been both an Associate Editor and contributor to journal. He brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the position. Beginning September 1, 2009 all new submissions will be handled by John and should be sent to him at jse@gvsu.edu . Revisions and questions about papers submitted prior to September 1 will continue to be handled by Bill Notz at jse@stat.osu.edu.

Current issue

The July 2009 (Volume 17, Number 2) issue of JSE is now available. The table of contents is at: [2009 Table of Contents]. This issue is packed with papers. There are 13 regular articles, one in the datasets and stories department, and two Teaching Bits. I think you will find something that will be interesting, informative, and entertaining. In addition to the regular papers in the July issue, we have also added a new data set to the data archive. This dataset consists of a listing of all hitters who were drafted in Major League Baseball's Amateur Draft in a 15-year period between 1992 and 2006, their attributes, and the number of games played and plate appearances in the minor leagues. The data set was submitted by Paul Rossman, a recent M.S. student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

From Research to Practice - Consider Submitting to this New Department

We have not received many submissions for the "From Research to Practice" section. We encourage JSE readers to consider submitting future contributions to this new department, by finding a research article of interest, reading and reflecting on it, implementing ideas from the paper in their classes, assessing the results, writing up their findings, and submitting it to JSE The paper by Jackie Miller in the March 2007 issue describes the goals of this section. Take a look!

A reminder from the editor

As you may have noticed, we now provide pdf versions of all papers as well as an html version. The pdf versions are suitable for downloading and printing. They are often cleaner looking than the html versions. Although html code does exist for many mathematical symbols, it is not the ideal language for equations. For example, html does not allow one to place one symbol directly above or below another. Thus, there is no code for the x-bar symbol for the mean. Also, older browsers may not support special html code. In those cases where a symbol or equation cannot be directly rendered in html, we create a picture of the symbol or equation (a gif or jpg file) and display the symbol or equations as a picture. There are a couple of drawbacks with using pictures. First, pictures are difficult to align and usually do not look good in the middle of a sentence. Thus, we often set them on a separate line. Second, the resolution of the pictures may be low and look blurred in some browsers. Third, the quality of the pictures seems to vary from browser to browser. An equation may look fine in Firefox but not as nice in Explorer. If you are submitting a paper with many equations or mathematical symbols, remember that the html version of your paper may not look as nice as the electronic version you submit. But we will convert your electronic version into a pdf file using the browser that produces the best looking result.

JSE is a publication of the American Statistical Association

Next issue

The next issue of JSE is due to be announced in November 2009. Articles in the next issue may appear on the Web site one at a time during the construction of the issue.

Other statistics education journals.

Statistics Education Research Journal
"Statistics Education Research Journal [SERJ] is published by the International Association for Statistical Education to encourage research activity, advance knowledge about student's attitudes, conceptions, and difficulties as regards stochastical knowledge and improving the teaching of statistics at all educational levels."
(www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php?show=serj)

Teaching Statistics
A journal for teachers of students aged 9 to 19.
(www.rsscse.org.uk/ts/)

Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics (CS-BIGS)
A journal of case studies in business, industry, and government statistics.
www.bentley.edu/csbigs
or
http://mail.beaconhill.org/~j_haughton/csbigstitle1-1jh.pdf.

Technology Innovations in Statistics Education
A journal reporting on studies of the use of technology to improve statistics learning at all levels, from kindergarten to graduate school and professional development.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/.

Mission statement

JSE disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels, including elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, continuing, and workplace education.

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