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October 2012 • Issue #424 AMSTATNEWS The Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association • http://magazine.amstat.org Recollections Thoughts AboutAbout JSMJSM inin& & SanSan DiegoDiego Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony ALSO: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Statistician Greg Ridgeway New Deputy Director of National Institute of Justice AMSTATNews OctOber 2012 • Issue #424 features Executive Director 3 President’s Corner Ron Wasserstein: [email protected] Associate Executive Director and Director of Operations 5 Member Spotlight Stephen Porzio: [email protected] Susan Gruber Director of Science Policy 6 ASA Commends NSF for Initiative, Commitment to Increasing Steve Pierson: [email protected] Statistics Profile Director of Education 6 ISS-2012 on Longitudinal Data Analysis a Success Rebecca Nichols [email protected] 7 Statistics for Policymakers Managing Editor Megan Murphy: [email protected] Statistical Modeling to Address the Problem of Illegal Immigration Production Coordinators/Graphic Designers Melissa Muko Gotherman: [email protected] 8 Statistician Greg Ridgeway New Deputy Director of National Kathryn Wright: [email protected] Institute of Justice Publications Coordinator 10 NSF Renews SAMSI for Five Years Val Nirala: [email protected] 11 ASA Records Viewable Online Advertising Manager Claudine Donovan: [email protected] 12 Meet NCHS Director, Edward Sondik Contributing Staff Members 14 JASA Highlights Kathleen Wert • Rebecca Nichols • Eric Sampson Studies of Immune Response and False Discovery Rate Amstat News welcomes news items and letters from readers on matters Featured in September Issue of interest to the association and the profession. 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She earned her master’s of interdisci- ASA GENERAL: [email protected] plinary studies at the University of Montana, and her undergradu- ADDRESS CHANGES: [email protected] ate career was spent at Montana State University, where she earned her BS in mathematics. AMSTAT EDITORIAL: [email protected] ADVERTISING: [email protected] Berthelson WEBSITE: http://magazine.amstat.org Printed in USA © 2012 American Statistical Association Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl serves as a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation. She earned her PhD in mathematics, specializing in symplectic geom- etry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and her BS in mathematics from Duke University. Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest Pearl community of statisticians. The ASA supports excellence in the development, application, and dissemination of statistical science through meetings, publications, membership services, education, accreditation, and advocacy. Our members serve in industry, government, and academia in more than 90 countries, advancing research and promoting sound statistical practice to inform public policy and improve human welfare. columns 20 STATtr@k Service-Oriented Statistics: What Can Students Do? Glen DePalma is a PhD student in the department of statistics at Purdue University and the Online Articles director of StatCom. His research interests include applied, Bayesian, and computational statistics, as well as distributed computing. The following articles in this issue can be found online Doug Baumann is a PhD student in the department of statistics at Purdue University. His at http://magazine.amstat.org. research focuses on the annotation-informed integration of “omic” data in next-genera- tion sequencing. Samuel Kou received this year’s Committee of Presidents Jeff Nisen is a fourth-year PhD student in the department of statistics at Purdue University. of Statistical Societies (COPSS) President’s Award for his His research focuses on the development of novel estimation and calibration procedures outstanding research contributions and service to the for stochastic models used in the financial engineering, risk management, and economet- field of statistics. Kou spoke to Bhramar Mukherjee about rics fields. winning the award. Read what he had to say online at Libo Wang is a PhD student in the department of statistics at Purdue University. Her http://magazine.amstat.org. research focuses on the application of linear mixed models in genome-wide associa- tion studies. The American Statistical Association/National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Joint Committee on Curriculum 21 175 in Statistics and Probability sponsored a Beyond AP The Future of Statistical Publications Statistics (BAPS) workshop during the annual Joint The ASA will celebrate its 175th anniversary in 2014. In preparation, column “175”— Statistical Meetings. Read the details at http://magazine. written by members of the ASA’s 175th Anniversary Steering Committee and other ASA amstat.org. members—will chronicle the theme chosen for the celebration, status of preparations, activities to take place, and, best yet, how you can get involved in propelling the ASA toward its bicentennial. The ASA sponsored a two-day Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) statistics workshop for middle- and high-school Contributing Editor mathematics and science teachers in conjunction with David Banks is a professor of the practice of statistics at Duke the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings. To find out more, visit University. He was coordinating editor of the Journal of the American Amstat News online at http://magazine.amstat.org. Statistical Association; editor of the Journal of Transportation Statistics; and associate editor for Statistical Methodology, American Mathematical Monthly, STAT, The Electronic Journal of Statistics, The department of statistics at Rajshahi University in and Environmetrics. Bangladesh will host the International Conference Banks on Statistical Data Mining for Bioinformatics, Health, Agriculture, and Environment from December 22–24 in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The registration deadline is November 20. For more information, visit Amstat News online at http://magazine.amstat.org. departments The editors of the peer-reviewed Journal of Research 22 meetings in Economics and International Finance (JREIF) are Recollections and Thoughts About JSM in San Diego accepting original articles in basic and applied research Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony and case studies and critical reviews, surveys, opinions, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies commentaries, and essays. Submit your manuscript(s) to COPSS Honors Statisticians [email protected]. A guide for authors and other details are available at http://interesjournals.org/JREIF/ 28 education Guide%20to%20Authors.htm. Planning begins, Proposals sought for uscOTS ’13 International Census at School Workshop Held in The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation launched a program Conjunction with JSM 2012 last October called Computational and Data-Enabled 2012 Educational Ambassador from Botswana Attends JSM Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS). Awards have been made for the first round of competition. The submission window for member news the current year is November 25 to December 10. To find 31 Awards and Deadlines out more, visit Amstat News online at http://magazine. amstat.org. To read the program description, visit www. 32 People News nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504687. 36 Section • Chapter • Committee News Sara Murphy, series acquisitions editor for the ASA-SIAM 38 Calendar of Events Series on Statistics and Applied Probability, helps authors 41 Professional Opportunities determine the publishing route they want to pursue by outlining what the series has to offer. Visit Amstat