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  • The November 2009 Newsletter in Adobe pdf format
    IN THIS ISSUE:
    • Call For Candidates To Run for The SSS Executive Board NEW!
    • Planning for JSM 2010: Volunteers to Chair Contributed Sessions
    • Planning for JSM 2010: Call For Contributed Session Abstracts
    • Planning for JSM 2010: Student Paper Competition
    • GSS and SSS Sponsored Roundtables for JSM 2010
    • Herriot Award Nominations Sought
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    UPCOMING DEADLINES AND EVENTS:
    November 20, 2009    - Deadline for Submitting Nominations for SSS Executive Board
    December 18, 2009   - Deadline for Submitting to the 2010 Student Paper Competition
    Dec 1 – Feb 1, 2010 - Abstract Submission Open for 2010 JSM Contributed Sessions
    April 1, 2010               - Herriot Award Nomination Deadline
  • The Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award - The Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is pleased to announce The 2010 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award. The award is intended to encourage mentoring of junior staff in the Federal statistical system. In 2010, the eligibility for the award will be expanded to include a member of the statistical community at the Federal, State, or Local level. It is presented annually to a supervisor, technical director, team coordinator, or other member of the government statistical staff who is nominated by a supervisor and co-workers. The winner is chosen by the Award Selection Committee. This award is co-sponsored with the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, the Council for Excellence in Government, the Washington Statistical Society, the Social Statistics and Government Statistics Sections of the American Statistical Association, and the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics.

    2009 marked the first time in the award’s 7-year history that two winners were chosen, as well as the first time the ASA’s Government Statistics Section oversaw the award selection process. Kevin Cecco, Chief of the Corporation Statistics Branch, Statistics of Income Division, IRS, and Lillian Lin, Mathematical Statistician, Division of HIV and AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received their awards at a ceremony held on June 17, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

    If you’re not familiar with the award or would like more information about the current winners and the history of the award, see the excellent article (including a number of pictures from the ceremony) in the August 2009 issue of Amstat News, pp. 51-54, or go to pp 51-54 of http://www.amstat.org/publications/amsn/2009/august.cfm.

    Nominations for 2010 will be accepted beginning in January 2010. The last date for submission of nominations is March 26, 2010, and the Award Committee will make its determination of the award winner by May 7, 2010.
    Nomination forms can be downloaded from: http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform10.doc (MS Word format) or http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform10.pdf (Adobe pdf format)
    For further information on the award, see http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/jegmaann10.pdf
  • GSS Business Meeting at the 2009 JSM - Join us at the GSS Business Meeting
    Please mark your calendar. The GSS Business meeting will take place Tuesday August 4th from 5:30 PM in room 160 of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Two awards will be presented during the business meeting: the Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Award and the Patricia J. Doyle Service Award. In addition, the winners of the poster competition will be in attendance. Please come and join us to congratulate the recipients of the awards/prizes. The Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award winners (Kevin Cecco, IRS, and Lillian Lin, CDC) plan to attend the meeting and we will acknowledge them as well
    In addition to these awards, there will be of course a series of items of interest to all current and potential members of GSS. If you are a member, feel free to bring along a colleague who might be a potential future member of the Section.
    We look forward to seeing you there.
  • ASA 2009 Election Results - In the 2009 Government Statistics Section balloting Steven Paben was elected as Chair Elect, Iris Shimizu was elected as the Program Chair Elect, and Kennon Copeland was elected as Council of Sections Representative. Their terms begin January 1, 2010.
  • 2009 Student Paper Competition - The Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Sections are pleased to announce a competition for student and postgraduate papers to be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Washington, DC on August 1-6, 2009. At least five awards will be granted. Winning papers are presented by the authors at a session of the meeting and are recognized at the Sections’ business meetings. A subsidy of up to $800 is provided to each winner in order to cover JSM 2009 expenses.
    Apply by December 19, 2008
  • JSM 2009: GSS Contributed Poster Contest - Thinking about contributing a paper to JSM? Why not contribute that paper through a “poster” format. The Government Statistics Section is initiating a new annual competition for “best poster” presentation at JSM to encourage both the quantity and quality of poster submissions. Winner of the best poster will receive $500 plus two years of free membership in GSS. Honorable Mentions will receive $250. Winning posters will be re-displayed at the GSS Business Meeting and Social.
  • Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship - The Government Statistics Section and the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) are pleased to announce the availability of a scholarship in memory of Wray Jackson Smith, a founding member of the Section and long-time contributor to Federal statistics. The Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship (WJSS), co-sponsored with the Washington Statistical Society, the Caucus for Women in Statistics, Harris-Smith Institutes, Mathematica Policy Research, and Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., is intended to reward promising young statisticians for their diligence, thereby encouraging them to consider a future in government statistics.
    The Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Committee has selected Kirsten Lum as the 2008 scholarship winner. Kirsten was a student at American University at the time of selection but will be a doctoral student at the George Washington University this fall. This award provides funds for Kirsten’s participation in the ENAR/IBS 2009 Spring Meetings in San Antonio, TX. She will be presenting on methods for joint modeling of longitudinal and survival time data. This is joint work with Dr. Rajeshwari Sundaram and Dr. Germaine Buck Louis, both from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She began working on this project as an intern at NICHD in the summer of 2007. Kirsten is also a presenter at JSM 2008 in Session 267 (Methods for Survival Time Analyses). She will speak on "Joint Model of Longitudinal Binary Data with Discrete Survival Time." Members of the 2008 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Committee are Michael P. Cohen (chair), Robert A. Kominski, and Stephen L. Campbell.
    History of Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship
    For 2009: Apply by April 15, 2009!   
    2009 Announcement    .
    2009 Application forms:
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp09.doc for a MS Word version or
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp09.pdf for an Adobe pdf version
    For further information for 2009, contact Robert A. Kominski by e-mail: robert.a.kominski@census.gov
  • The Roger Herriot Award - The 2009 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics will be presented at the 2009 JSM in Washington, DC on August 1 - 6, 2009. The Roger Herriot Award is sponsored by the Washington Statistical Society, the ASA's Social Statistics Section and the ASA's Government Statistics Section.
    Nominations are now sought for the 2009 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics.
    Submit nominations by May 1, 2009. Electronic submissions, via pdf, are permissible.
    For more information, contact the Chair of the 2008 Herriot Award Committee, Dwight Brock, dwightbrock@westat.com. Electronic submissions are permissible.
  • The Pat Doyle Award - The Executive Committee of the Government Statistics Section (GSS) created the Pat Doyle Award in 2005 as a tribute to Pat’s dedication to the statistical field and the GSS during her lifetime. When Pat died, she left her imprints on an astonishingly wide range of projects and activities in the U.S. federal statistical community. The award is given to a person who contributes to the GSS in a way that leaves a lasting impact on GSS and ASA.
  • The Government Statistics Section Business Meeting minutes - July 2007 in MS Word format.
We express our thanks to Government Statistics Section's corporate sponsors for 2009:
      Bureau of Labor Statistics
      CDC - National Center for Health Statistics
      Internal Revenue Service - Statistics of Income Div.
      National Science Foundation
      U.S. Census Bureau
      U.S. Dept of Agriculture - National Agricultural Statistical Service
      U.S. Dept of Commerce - Bureau of Economic Analysis
      U.S. Social Security Administration

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Last updated:     November 19, 2009.

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