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On Becoming Indispensable

he voice on my radio at 5 So I asked Appelbaum, how scientists focus on prediction. a.m. one day last month did a bunch of economists And often the target is prediction was that of NPR’s Noel go from nobodies to being for a specific set of circumstances, TKing on Morning Edition: important people? And he said, not for a general set of conditions “It’s pretty simple. In an era of that would require estimation. Picture this. In the early 1950s, a real economic problems, they He shared some insightful views young guy is working at a desk promised solutions.” on the two disciplines. deep inside the Federal Reserve This last sentence reminded Many people frame the “inva- Bank of New York. It’s not exactly me of a statement made by Vijay sion” of data science as “How a corner office. And he com- Nair, D. A. Darling Professor can we convince data scientists plains to his wife that he has no Emeritus at the University of that we are data science?” Or, to Karen Kafadar future there at the Fed. He’s not a Michigan and head of statisti- use Efron’s insight, “How can we banker. He’s not a lawyer. He is a cal learning and advanced com- do more prediction, as people lowly economist. That is what life puting at Wells Fargo, during a want?” But I am not sure we is like for economists in the 1950s. conversation: “People in the real want to go that route. Perhaps world are looking for solutions to the question for us is rather, Her guest, New York Times problems—straight answers, not “How do we convince people columnist Binyamin Appelbaum, ‘If …’ or ‘But …’ or ‘Maybe …’.” they really want statisticians’ MORE ONLINE elaborated: And people will listen to any- insight, estimation, and valid The link to the NPR one who provides these answers. inference from data?” How do story is: https://n.pr/2lZyxTX Nobody respects them, in part, At a House Committee hear- we do what economists did in the just because economics was a ing last, titled “Raising the Bar: 1950s—convince people, espe- new thing in the world. The idea Progress and Future Needs in cially high-level decision-makers, that people could manage economic conditions, could improve Forensic Science and Standards,” that they cannot live without us? economic conditions—these Rep. Jerry McNerney asked, I do not think all the recent were new ideas in the world. … “How do you see AI methods as attention on p-values will per- This quiet but really important advancing the practice of foren- suade people to listen to statisti- revolution that happens, really, sic science?” It was a good ques- cians. (It may have the opposite member news beginning in the late 1960s and tion for those who understand effect. People may decide they the early 1970s, where econo- AI (artificial intelligence) and don’t need statistical methods at 36 Awards and Deadlines mists begin to gain tremendous ML (machine learning) methods all.) Nor will waving a “creden- influence over public policy in 37 People News as promises to solve all problems. tial” like “accreditation” (unless the United States. As statisticians, however, most it’s the Nobel Prize), nor over- 40 Section • Chapter • Committee News of us are accustomed to work- selling the methods we develop. Noel King continued: ing carefully through problems We have been properly cautious 44 Professional Opportunities to ensure safe and reliable solu- when caution is appropriate. So In fact, that young economist tions. In his lecture as winner of what is the answer? who told his wife he had no the 2019 International Prize in Appelbaum attributed the future at the Fed, that was Paul Statistics (Kuala Lumpur, August revolution in the world’s view Volcker. He became one of a 19, 2019), Brad Efron talked of economists to two important small group of economists who about prediction, estimation, and events: the failing US economy made themselves indispensable attribution. He noted that statis- in the 1970s and the presence of to US presidents. Volcker rose ticians focus on estimation— an enormously influential econo- to become the chairman of the estimation of the model and its mist named Milton Friedman. Federal Reserve in the Carter and parameters and standard errors, According to Appelbaum, Reagan years. and attribution of the effects (sig- Friedman’s message was that gov- nificance testing) —whereas data ernment should reduce its role in

october 2019 amstat news 3 the economy and put its trust in Nick’s committee offers frame- courses for the past few decades. the markets to allocate resources. works that “will provide the basis (My colleague Jordan Rodu pro- “And for a generation that is con- for development of courses in posed a slogan for our depart- fronting the failure of the econ- introductory data science for stu- ment: “Statistics at UVA: We Put omy, this has enormous appeal,” dents in their final two years of the Science in Data Science.”) said Appelbaum. secondary school and of courses Second, we can resurrect the I hope it does not take a fail- to teach teachers how to teach many resources statisticians have ing economy for statisticians to introductory data science.” developed for introducing data be seen as indispensable and that After the ASA’s successful analysis and statistical concepts we can find ways, during good efforts introducing statistics in the classroom. People might times and bad, to prove our value into grades K–12 (see www. realize those resources, having MORE ONLINE and impact. Of course, some amstat.org/ASA/Education/K-12- been refined through years of use, Read about the statisticians have risen to posi- Statistics-Education-Resources. may be more practical and suit- congressional tions of indispensability: Janet aspx), we may soon discover “sta- able for their purposes. hearing from September 10, 2019, Norwood (commissioner, Bureau tistics” is nowhere to be found in And, most importantly, we at http://bit.ly/2klEPN0. of Labor Statistics, 1979–1991); those grades while students all can seek—and seize—opportu- Katherine Wallman (chief stat- know what “data science” is— nities to demonstrate our skills Visit http://statweb. istician, Office of Management even if the concepts and methods at solving problems—the bigger, stanford.edu/~ckirby/ and Budget, 1992–2017); Stella they are learning such as “select the better. brad/talks to view Cunliffe (director of statistics, appropriate numerical and Efron’s lecture about Remember the economists; prediction, estimation, UK Home Office, 1972–1977). graphical summaries to answer they took on the problems of the and attribution. How can the respect they earned questions posed about a single entire economy! Maybe we can as individuals be translated into feature/variable in a data set,” convince the world that we stat- Visit http://bit. recognition of indispensability “interpret numerical and graphi- isticians can solve everyone’s data ly/2lXS4nE to learn for the entire profession? cal summaries in the context of problems and save the world. about the Fisher Data Science Curricula People are drawn to experts the original problem to answer And then, instead of being “lowly Frameworks. when they see them provid- questions posed about the origi- [statisticians]” in dark offices, we ing solutions to their problems. nal problem and make discover- will see our talents become indis- As John Tukey wrote long ago, ies” and “classify questions and pensable to scientists and advis- “Finding the right question is hypotheses as to whether they ers and counselors, because we often harder than finding the apply to the sample at hand or to have proved ourselves repeatedly answer.” Indeed, we are quite a larger population” (Curriculum in areas like survey development good at that—especially when the Frameworks for Data Science, pp. and analysis, clinical trials, risk proposed solution may be subject 20–21) are those we learned as assessment, signal extraction, to serious, unanticipated biases “statistics”! (It’s a very thoughtful experimental design, physical that had not been recognized by report, by the way.) modeling—areas in which other others. We all have seen that, by So, we face challenges: ensur- disciplines may have difficulty calling attention to the short- ing “statistics” does not become claiming expertise. comings in a proposed approach an obsolete term; enlightening My dad used to say, “Bad or running a (possibly flawed) data science administrators who times are good times for good experiment or analyzing a (pos- think any class with data should people.” The world’s challenges sibly biased) data set, statisticians be taught as data science; and may give us opportunities that have saved their collaborators reminding our colleagues we will lead to good times for stat- much time and many resources. solve problems. We can tackle isticians. We will have to work We face an uphill battle these challenges together. Here together to make that happen, with the explosion of data sci- are some ideas, and I encourage and I welcome your ideas! ence. Recently, the International you to contribute others. Data Science in Schools Project, First, we can all remind our chaired by Nicholas Fisher with data science colleagues that, 12 committee members from when they are teaching statis- statistics and computer science, tical concepts, those concepts issued a report titled, Curriculum have been around for some time. Frameworks for Data Science. They’ve been taught in statistics

4 amstat news october 2019 Highlights of the July 26–27, 2019, ASA Board of Directors Meeting

Members of the ASA Board take a vote during the meeting in Denver, Colorado. From left: James Lepkowski, Katherine Halvorsen, Mark Glickman, and Scott Evans. Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA

SA President Karen Kafadar convened the • The board formed a CHANCE task force ASA Board meeting at the Hyatt Regency to consider the future of the magazine and Denver prior to the start of JSM 2019. The report at the next board meeting. highlightsA of the board meeting follow. • The board decided that either Boston or Discussion Item Montréal will be the site of JSM 2026, with the final decision to be made in the fall by the • ASA Director of Membership Development Executive Committee after staff negotiates and Marketing Amy Farris reviewed with with those cities. the board the many strategies staff uses to recruit and retain members. Then, the board engaged in a discussion about the ways poli- Reported Items cies such as membership categories, recruit- • ASA Associate Executive Director and ment and retention resources, branding, and Director of Operations Steve Porzio briefly what items are provided to members only can summarized the ASA’s financial activ- affect membership. The results of the discus- ity through June 30, 2019. Finances are as sion will seed future discussions and possible expected for the first half of the year. policy changes. • ASA Treasurer Amarjot Kaur reported on the Action Items ASA’s investments. She noted that due to the bull market, the ASA’s portfolio had gained • The board approved a document, “Policies more than $2.4 million in value in the first and Procedures for Reporting, Investigating, half of 2019, reaching a market value of about and Adjudicating Violations of the ASA’s $21.3 million. Activities Conduct Policy,” subject to legal review and final vote by the Board Executive • Amanda Malloy, ASA director of develop- Committee. After final approval, this document, reported that, while overall giving ment will be printed in Amstat News and is down in the US, giving at the ASA has widely disseminated. been up. Not only did the ASA see its 11th consecutive year of increased giving in 2018, • The board extended the contract of ASA but 2019 is ahead of 2018. She also noted Executive Director Ron Wasserstein through the official launch of the ASA GivesBack August 2024. program. This is a new group of early-career statisticians and students whose purpose is to • The board appointed Ruixiao Lu as promote a culture of philanthropy. treasurer for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2020.

october 2019 amstat news 5 2019 Board of Directors Karen Kafadar, President • David Goldberg of Purdue University updated the board on the activities of the Wendy Martinez, President-elect Math Alliance. The board continues to be Lisa LaVange, Past President interested in sponsoring activities of the alliance. Goldberg said he would keep the David Williamson, 3rd-Year Vice board informed of opportunities. President • Jim Rosenberger, director of the National Katherine Monti, 2nd-Year Vice Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), President updated the board on NISS activities and continuing ways NISS and the ASA can col- Richard De Veaux, 1st-Year Vice laborate. These two organizations have been President partners for more than two decades. Julia Sharp, 3rd-Year Council of • ASA Director of Strategic Initiatives and Chapters Representative Outreach Donna LaLonde updated the Don Jang, 2nd-Year Council of board on the status of ASA salary surveys. Chapters Representative She reviewed the history of salary surveys and indicated further discussion will take Anamaria Kazanis, 1st-Year Council of place in November. Chapters Representative • LaLonde also reported that student chap- Jim Lepkowski, 3rd-Year Council of ters continue to thrive, with more than Sections Representative 60 student chapters operating at present. The third annual student chapter leader- Katherine Halvorsen, 2nd-Year ship workshop was held at JSM this year. Council of Sections Representative Students from Denver served as table hosts. Mark Glickman, 1st-Year Council of Daniel Elchert, ASA science policy fellow, described his role at the ASA. The students Sections Representative discussed 21st-century skills and what the Cynthia Bocci, International ASA can do to support development of Representative those skills. Scott Evans, Publications • ASA Science Policy Director Steve Pierson Representative updated the board about the citizenship question on the decennial census, the sta- Amarjot Kaur, Treasurer tus of changes to the Economics Research Ron Wasserstein, Executive Director Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture of USDA, ongoing issues at the and Board Secretary Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, and issues involving the National Center for Education Statistics. He also updated the board on the • The board received progress reports on the Count on Stats program and State of the US strategic initiatives launched by Kafadar. Data Infrastructure project. In addition, ASA President-elect Wendy Martinez updated the board on her ideas • ASA Director of Education Rebecca Nichols for 2020. described a few of the many ASA educational activities, including the educational • The Council of Chapters Governing ambassador program, review of the National Board (COCGB) and Council of Sections Assessment of Educational Progress math- Governing Board (COSGB) reported ematics assessment framework, Meeting on their recent activities. The COCGB Within a Meeting, Beyond AP Statistics, reviewed many matters, including plans for What’s Going on in This Graph, and JSM, a new chapter reporting survey, chap- Census at School. The board expressed ter stimulus funding, and other resources for delight and enthusiasm for the wide array of chapter success. The COSGB reported on ASA investment in education at all levels. a workshop for interest group officers and improvements to annual reporting, among The board holds it final meeting for 2019 many other activities. November 22–23 at the ASA office in Alexandria, Virginia. n

6 amstat news october 2019 Study Reveals Gender Imbalance on (Bio)statistics Editorial Boards Andrea Foulkes, MGH Research Institute he results of a recent study reveal an apparent discrepancy in the num- Table 1. Number of AEs and Academic Age Distribution by Journal Tbers of males and females who Number Academic Age serve on editorial boards of presti- Journal gious biostatistics and statistics of AEs Median (IQR) journals. The overall proportion Annals of Applied Statistics 75 16 (11, 24) of females awarded doctorates in Biometrical Journal 33 21 (15, 25) the United States has been consis- Biometrics 78 16 (12, 24) tently above 40% for the past 17 Biometrika 27 14 (8, 28) years. Yet, the overall proportion Biostatistics 40 12 (8, 20) of female associate editors (AEs) JASA: Applications and Case Studies 40 17 (12, 23) for 12 top journals in statistics and JASA: Theory and Methods 142 18 (15, 27) biostatistics is just 24.6%. JRSS, Series B (Statistical Methodology) 27 15 (12, 20) The study, conducted by JRSS, Series C (Applied Statistics) 18 12 (9, 18) Andrea Foulkes, director of the Statistical Methods in Medical Research 59 20 (12, 33) biostatistics center in the divi- Statistics in Medicine 61 19 (15, 27) sion of clinical research at MGH The American Statistician 42 22 (12, 26) Research Institute, was spurred Total 642 17 (12, 25) by the fact that editorial boards of scientific journals are among Table 2. Number and Percentage of AEs by Age Category and Sex the most influential bodies in the academy, as they collectively make Academic Age Category Female (%) Male (%) Total critical decisions about the dis- (5,15] 79 (0.319) 168 (0.677) 248 semination of research findings to (15,25] 47 (0.239) 146 (0.741) 197 the larger community. Members of these boards play a vital role in (25,55] 14 (0.096) 132 (0.904) 146 identifying referees and soliciting Overall 140 (0.237) 446 (0.755) 591 reports, evaluating the nuances and relative contributions of these associate editors (AEs) are provid- States by discipline (biometrics/bio- reports, and ultimately discerning ed in Table 1. Sex was recorded as statistics, mathematical statistics, the suitability of manuscripts for a binary variable based on visual or statistics) from 1995 to 2017. publication. At the same time, assessments of online images or Academic age data was collected membership to an editorial board indicated pronouns. A sex deter- from self-reported online resourc- is considered a significant mile- mination was made in 633 of es (e.g., personal webpages and stone with respect to criteria for 642 cases (98.6% of AEs), and LinkedIn), and age is missing for promotion at academic institu- the impact of potential misclas- 42 of 642 cases (6.5% of AEs.) The tions, particularly from the rank sification is expected to be small. numbers of earned doctorates by of associate to full professor. For each journal, the propor- discipline and year were taken from To begin this investigation, tion of female AEs was recorded. the National Science Foundation’s Foulkes—along with Mount There was overlap in editorial National Center for Science and Holyoke alumni Rachel Bostick, board members across journals, Engineering Statistics (NCSES) Regina Brecha, and Savannah so the reported proportions are Survey of Earned Doctorates. Romeo—downloaded a listing of not independent. The proportions of female edito- editorial board members for each To contextualize the results of rial board members by journal are of 12 top journals in statistics and this study, Foulkes also consid- provided in Figure 1. The percent- biostatistics. While not compre- ered: (1) the distribution of aca- age of female board members for all hensive, these journals are repre- demic age of AEs, defined as the journals combined is 24.6%, representative in scope, ranging from number of years since receiving a sented by the dotted vertical line in novel statistical applications to sta- doctoral level degree, and (2) the Figure 1. The range across the 12 tistical theory. The journal names percentages of female doctoral considered journals is 0.11 to 0.33. and corresponding numbers of degree recipients in the United The solid vertical line in this figure october 2019 amstat news 7 Annals of Applied Statistics The overall proportion of Biometrical Journal females awarded doctorates in the United States has been consistently Biometrics above 40% for the past 17 years. Biometrika Moreover, in biometrics/biostatistics, this proportion has exceeded Biostatistics 50% in the majority of years since JASA: Applications and Case Studies 1997, reaching a peak of 65.3% in JASA: Theory and Methods 2008. Yet, the overall proportion of female AEs for the 12 consid- JRSS, Series B (Statistical Methodology) ered journals is just 24.6%. This JRSS, Series C (Applied Statistics) proportion is higher at 31.9% in the 5−15-year academic age Statistical Methods in Medical Research category, though still not reflec- Statistics in Medicine tive of the proportion of females awarded doctorates in the cor- The American Statistician responding period in the United States. Finally, although there is % female board members some variability in the proportion Figure 1. Percentage of female editorial board members for 12 top journals in (bio)statistics of female AEs across journals, the interquartile range (IQR) is fairly narrow at 0.221 to 0.278, and the female board membership is consistently less than 50%. Editorial board membership

% females awarded doctorates awarded % females requires substantial expertise in one or more areas of statistics and

% females awarded doctorates awarded % females a broad network of colleagues from whom one can solicit refer- ee reports. While it is difficult to quantify these attributes, academic

% females awarded doctorates awarded % females age may serve as a reasonable surro- gate. One limitation of this study is year that Foulkes only considers doctor- year Field Biometrics/biostatistics Mathematical statistics Statistics Overall ates awarded in the United States, Field Biometrics/biostatistics Mathematical statistics Statistics Overall while the proportion of females awarded doctorates outside the United States may be lower and editorial boards are composed of year international scholars. In addition, Figure 2. Percentage of females awardedField Biometrics/biostatistics doctorates in (bio)statisticsMathematical statistics by yearStatistics Overall Foulkes does not consider whether the proportion of doctorates corresponds to an equal proportion is available up to and including awarded to women differ by rank of male and female board members. 2006. The fitted lines in this figure of institution. However, she thinks The median and interquartile range are based on locally estimated scat- the large number of females who of academic age by journal is given terplot smoothing (LOESS) over- earned doctorates more than 10 in Table 1. The sample correlation all and for each of the correspond- years ago, and the relatively high between median academic age and ing degree classifications. The proportion in the United States, percentage of female AEs is -0.23 dotted horizontal line represents provides a significant opportunity [95% confidence interval (-0.71, the present-day percent of female to create parity in the editorial 0.39)]. The numbers and percentages AEs, and the solid horizontal line decision-making process. Rather of AEs in each of three age categories corresponds to an equal propor- than allowing editorial board by sex are provided in Table 2. tion of males and females. Since membership to reflect a legacy of The percentages of women receiv- 1995, 5,494 individuals—includ- discrimination, Foulkes urges the ing doctoral degrees in biostatistics/ ing 2,228 women—earned a doc- leadership of scientific journals in biometrics, mathematical statistics, torate in biostatistics/biometrics, (bio)statistics to take an active role and statistics in the United States mathematical statistics, or statistics in balancing the sex ratio of board from 1995 to 2017 are illustrated in in the United States more than 10 membership by inviting more Figure 2. The statistics designation years ago. women to serve in this role. n

8 amstat news october 2019 Boston University to Hold Symposium on Statistics and Life Sciences Josée Dupuis and Eric D. Kolaczyk

he Boston University School of Public Health, in coor- The symposium will feature two plenary speakers—Joseph dination with the Biostatistics Department and the Lehar of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Department of Mathematics and Statistics, will jointly Johnson and Susan Murphy of Harvard University—and two Thost a dean’s symposium titled “Statistics and the Life Sciences: keynote speakers—David Dunson of Duke University and Creating a Healthier World” on November 15. Vadim Zipunnikov of The Johns Hopkins University. As a Co-hosted by the American Statistical Association, Institute warm up for the symposium, each of the four speakers was for Mathematical Statistics, and National Institute of Statistical asked a set of three questions central to the intended focus, Sciences and open to attendees both in person and via webinar, seeking their thoughts about how statistics has most affected the one-day symposium will feature short presentations and dis- the health sciences in the recent past, what constitutes the big- cussion of statistical challenges and progress toward solutions in gest statistical challenges in the health sciences for the coming a handful of emerging and mission-critical areas of the health decade, and how we might best meet these challenges. Their sciences. Specifically, we will focus on digital health, machine responses are summarized below. learning in causal inference, and networks for public health.

In what way do you feel statistics devices to social media. Summing massive, complex, and diverse has had the biggest impact on the up, he stated, “Statistics has had data resulting from “multi- life sciences in the past decade? a fundamental impact on this system real-time monitoring of paradigm shift in the way life human physiology and ambi- The common response was that science is being connected; there ent environmental exposure.” this impact was two-fold in is no use in collecting such data He further commented, “[The] nature, consisting of (i) support unless we have reliable and repro- main analytic challenges are cen- for the use of massive, diverse, ducible methods for analysis and tered around the complexity of and complex forms of data and interpretation. The development digital mobile health measures (ii) the development of statisti- of ‘big data’ statistics has freed up that are inherently intensively cal machine learning methods scientists to be creative in devel- longitudinal, have different time for their analysis. Lehar noted oping and exploring new sources scales, have different measure- how statistics has been key to of data.” ment, have differences in sub- “enabling the integration and jective interpretation of scales, analysis of very complex data What do you think consti- exhibit huge between and with- sets across very diverse sources of tutes the biggest statistical in subject heterogeneity across information.” As an example of challenge(s) in the health sci- days and weeks of observation, the impact of machine learning, ences for the coming decade? follow significant diurnal and he highlighted the use of such Here, the responses were diverse, weekly patterns, and often have methods “to automate classifying reflecting in many ways the diver- substantial potentially informa- disease phenotypes that used to sity of interests and research areas tive missingness.” All of which rely on subjective and imprecise among the speakers. Murphy, are further complicated by sub- expert opinions (e.g., deep neu- speaking from her perspective stantial cross-dependence among ral networks on cancer pathol- at the forefront of clinical trials measurement modalities. ogy images or machine learning design and analysis, asked, “How From the perspective of on molecular profiles to produce do we harness vast amounts of someone working across actionable clinical biomarkers for data—both from many individu- industry and academia at the matching patients to therapies).” als as well as on any one individ- frontier of oncology research, Similarly, Dunson spoke of the ual—to enhance and increase the Lehar summed up in just two transition from more traditional impact of clinical trials?” words: “incomplete data.” He ‘small data’ to ‘big data,’ citing a On the other hand, speaking added, “Rarely do we have good host of new measurement tech- from the vantage of his exper- coverage of enough data types nologies whose use is enabled by tise in digital mobile health, across many patients. This lim- statistics—from single cell RNA Zipunnikov pointed to the its the extent to which machine sequencing to electronic medical challenges posed by the need to learning can be applied, and thus records, and from mobile health extract value and insight from the the problems we can address.” october 2019 amstat news 9 Finally, Dunson provided a such as selection bias, has been much of a tendency toward general and sobering comment leading to a critical reproducibil- data ‘silos.’ Emphasizing the about statistics and the health ity problem in science.” central importance of this step, he sciences in general, saying, “It is stated, “A more concerted effort definitely the case that the rapid What is needed to meet this to share data across diverse pro- pace of production of data of challenge(s)? viders is essential to truly realize unprecedented size and complex- Zipunnikov called for engage- REGISTER the dream of precision medicine.” The symposium ity has overwhelmed the statisti- ment of and by statisticians to Alternately, Murphy called is free and open cal community. We lack the nec- meet the challenges he raised, for increased attention to the to the public to essary tools to properly analyze saying, “The process of trans- “development of conceptual ideas join in person or these data streams, and we lack forming data into knowledge is for harnessing big data in clini- online. To register, the necessary pool of talent to impossible without active intel- cal trial design and execution.” visit bu.edu/sph/ lectual participation of statisti- stats-and-life. implement current tools appro- Further, she cited the need for priately, while also developing cians in major multidisciplinary “training in the underlying prin- transformative new tools in a efforts that focus on conceptu- ciples of trial design (e.g., going data/science-driven manner.” He alization, measurement, analy- back to Fisher and Hill) com- further pointed to cultural chal- sis, and treatment of myriad bined with training in compu- lenges within statistics, particu- physiological, behavioral, and tational methods and statistical mental health conditions.” As larly in contrast to culture in the principles related to replicability.” a positive example, he pointed broader machine learning com- Last, Dunson called for noth- to the mobile Motor Activity munity, professing that “the pri- ing short of a revolution, echo- Research Consortium for Health orities in statistics departments ing other recent calls of a similar (mMARCH) that he and others in academia often run counter to nature (e.g., the NSF Crossroads recently formed as an interna- meeting these challenges.” The project): “We need to fundamen- tional network to leverage the stakes are high: “The increasing tally revamp the statistics educa- potential of digital mobile health focus on ML algorithms, instead tion curriculum to prepare stu- In a similar vein, Lehar of statistical methods having a dents with high-quality tools for called for increased data shar- formal framework for accommo- analyzing and interpreting the ing to address the challenge of dating uncertainty quantification massive-scale complex data being incomplete data, noting too and dealing with critical issues routinely collected. We need to revamp the reward system in FREE 2019 Seasonal Adjustment Practitioners academics to favor the development of truly innovative methods Workshop Happening in November that are actually of direct utility in analysis of large-scale scien- The Government Statistics Section, Business and Economic Statistics Section, tific data sets over incremental and Washington Statistical Society are sponsoring the third Seasonal Adjustment methods with seemingly strong Practitioners Workshop (SAPW) November 20 at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in asymptotic support. Less focus Washington, DC. on publication volume and more SAPW is a one-day conference for those who are actively involved in seasonal focus on impact/innovation of a adjustment and related time series methods, providing an opportunity to share experi- few key publications in tenure ences in producing seasonal adjustments; give details of interesting time series estima- decisions. We need fundamen- tion problems and possible solutions; discuss best practices in seasonal adjustment, tally new ways of analyzing and time series modeling, or benchmarking; share lessons learned, tips, and shortcuts; pres- interpreting data and more of a ent applied research in the practice of time series estimation; and network with others paradigm for appropriately deal- who face the same challenges. There is no charge to participate. ing with truly complex data that Jonathan Wright of The Johns Hopkins University will be the keynote speak- require pre-processing and face er, presenting “Seasonal Adjustment of NIPA Data: Model-Based and Moving- computational challenges in stor- Average-Based Approaches.” Wright’s research focus has been econometrics, empiri- age, transfer, and processing.” cal macroeconomics, and empirical finance, but his interests span a wide range The Boston University sym- of topics, including forecasting in a data-rich environment, the high-frequency posium promises to serve as a effects of news announcements, term structure analysis, and the econometrics of forum for discussion of these weak identification. William Bell, senior mathematical statistician at the US Census and other cutting-edge topics at Bureau, will be the discussant. the intersection of statistics and To participate in the workshop, submit an abstract of 100 or fewer words by the health sciences in a format October 15 to [email protected]. To attend, register by November 17 broadly accessible to the larger at https://tinyurl.com/SAPW2019. data science community. n

10 amstat news october 2019 STATS FROM THE ROAD What’s Your Why?

his year, I’ve taken a page out of my three- year-old’s book and Thave been asking “why” a lot. I’m on a mission to understand what motivates ASA members. Why do you do what you do? At JSM this year, I asked people to write down their Amanda Malloy responses to a few questions: Why did you become a statistician or data scientist? Why do you choose to be an ASA member? Why do THE ASA IS TURNING 180 YEARS you choose to donate to the ASA? OLD IN NOVEMBER! I received great responses. Here are a few: “Because now more than ever, we need to promote the importance of science.” To celebrate, we are designating – Theresa Kim November 22, 2019, ASA Day. “I’m an ASA member so I can collaborate with my peers on challenges that affect us all.” Here’s what to look out for during the – Richard Zink ASA’s birthday month: “I’m a statistician to help make the world a better place for my family.” – Erik Raab Did You Know? “I am an ASA donor because I believe Facts about the ASA and its history. in putting my money where my heart is.” – G. Jackson I Can’t. I’m Striking a Pose. Not surprisingly, there is a lot of overlap between Answer our quizzes correctly and an ASA T-shirt members’ “why’s” and the ASA’s “why.” Of course, could be in your future. there is! The ASA is a membership association, and it is the members who drive the association’s activi- Haiku Who? Haiku You! ties and focus. Giving Day, on November 1, is all about showcasing some of the reasons we do what Write a haiku about the ASA’s history or one that we do and the impact of donations. predicts the future of statistics. Once again, there As Giving Day approaches, I would encourage might be a T-shirt in it for you … you to think about your why and consider donating to show your support. Hello. It’s Us. There are several fun contests we’ll run through- A video message from the ASA Leadership. out the day, such as the Early Bird and Donate and Share challenges. Winners from these contests last year received prizes like an invitation to I’m Kind of a Big Deal. the President’s Invited Speaker Reception at JSM An exclusive discount on ASA membership and an ASA goody box with a timeline of statistics for new members. poster, “Statistics Is My Superpower” water bottle, and other fun items. Visit ww2.amstat.org/givingday to learn more about what your donation on Giving Day can do and how you can win one of our prizes this year! Thank you for your support! n Visit www.amstat.org/asaday for more information.

october 2019 amstat news 11 Annual Report for the Washington Statistical Society Tom Krenzke, WSS President (2018–2019)

he Washington Statistical Society (WSS) is the larg- Join WSS est chapter of the The annual dues for joining WSS are the following: TAmerican Statistical Association, with more than 1,000 members ASA Member $10 (Full) from government, academia, and ASA Student Member $3 (Full-Student) the private sector. An active chapter, WSS offers opportuni- Non-ASA Member $10 (Associate) ties for statisticians and data sci- Non-ASA Student Member $3 (Associate-Student) entists to do the following: • Learn through seminars and Details about joining WSS are available at washstat.org/joinus.html. workshops and continue your own statistical education • Socialize through networking which was started by current human rights, privacy and confi- with colleagues mentoring committee mem- dentiality, public health and bio- ber Mark Otto about four years statistics, public policy, quality • Engage in service by increasing ago. The mentoring program, assurance, and social and demo- the level of quantitative lit- combined with various recep- graphic statistics. Highlights were eracy in area schools and moti- tions, helps build relationships the Hansen lecture by Roger vating and developing the next and community. This year, with Tourangeau with discussants Jill generation of statisticians Theresa Kim as chair of the com- Dever and Kristen Olson, the This past year, the theme was mittee, the number of mentoring WSS President’s Invited semi- “Let’s Get Together!” Included in pairs grew to 40. Other com- nar by Natalie Shlomo, and the Table 1 are the quarterly opportu- mittee members included Erin Cox Award seminar by Courtney nities for the WSS statistical and Tanenbaum, Michael Messner, Kennedy. data science community. and Lloyd Hicks. The education committee, Table 1: Quarterly Opportunities A second highlight was the led by Carol Blumberg, spon- leadership workshop, which was sored several seminars. In addi- Quarter Learn Socialize Service organized by Mark Otto, Eileen tion, there were four short courses Sign up as DC-AAPOR Informal meet and O’Brien, and Jennifer Parker and offered, which together involved 3 2018 a mentor or Conference greet at JSM featured Gary Sullivan, Barry about 140 participants. The short mentee Nussbaum, and Sally Morton. The courses have been managed the Hansen Enlist in Hansen lecture workshop gave statisticians greater past several years by Yang Cheng. Lecture, quantitative 4 2018 reception, annual awareness of leadership and helped This year’s social events helped literacy Leadership holiday party chart paths forward on leadership facilitate a vibrant and diverse activities Workshop development journeys. community. Activities started with President’s President’s Invited Volunteer at Another focus was the efforts a social event at the Joint Statistical 1 2019 Invited Lecture reception science fairs of the Diversity Committee, Meetings in Vancouver. There Lecture started in 2018 by Chapter Past were two other organized happy Award Cox Award President Linda Young and led by hour gatherings, one in Rockville, 2 2019 Annual dinner competition Seminar Mike Jadoo. Mike arranged several Maryland, and one in DC. The judging events with local universities, help- holiday party, receptions for ing awareness and the size of WSS the highlighted seminars above, Learn, socialize, serve—beyond membership to increase. and annual dinner provided an those mentioned above, there are Several technical seminars opportunity to interact with col- so many opportunities to high- fostered learning in the follow- leagues from different organiza- light. In this summary, I mention ing areas: agriculture and natural tions, and each could not have a few of the major highlights and resources, data collection meth- been successful without the social examples of others. ods, data science and statistical arrangements led by Glenn White One of this year’s features was computing, defense and national and Ed Mulrow. the WSS mentoring program, security, economics, education, 12 amstat news october 2019 There are many people who REGISTRATION OPEN for Virtual served and volunteered (including Dhuly Chowdhury (treasur- Workshops on World of Blended Data er) and Will Cecere (secretary)) who deserve to be mentioned. egistration is open for the free “world of blended data” series The WSS poster competition and of virtual workshops. Register for the entire series or just a few. other quantitative literacy (QL) The Government Statistics (GSS) and Social Statistics (SSS) Rsections are hosting the series, offered as a part of the ASA Professional events and awards, such as the student travel award, are a large part Development Program. It targets those who may not be able to travel of WSS. Maura Bardos led the QL to conferences but are interested in continuing education opportunities. activities, while Elizabeth Petraglia Each virtual workshop consists of a one-hour webinar followed by vir- led the poster competition. Every tual participation in a group discussion and possible set of activities using year, WSS members judge data data and code provided by the presenter. Every component is designed to visualization posters submitted by educate on one aspect of blended data from an acknowledged expert in DC-area students and students the field while focusing on applications to surveys and censuses (demo- from all over the country who do graphic and establishment). not have a local chapter to judge The series will expose participants to the advantages of using combined data sources for developing inferential models and measures while their posters. This year, we received REGISTER 256 posters. Our 11 judges select- remaining cognizant of the challenges associated with combining large ONLINE at ed 16 DC-area winners, two of data sets and the potential pitfalls of analyses of blended data, includ- http://bit.ly/2kvtOJm. which went on to also win awards ing privacy considerations. Participants will gain familiarity with com- in the national competition. monly used machine learning software such as R and Python. Topics, PRESENTERS Our monthly newsletter, The presenters, and dates include the following: WSS News (http://washstat.org/ Overview of Blended Data, given by Frauke Krueter, director of newsletters), has been managed the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, by Colleen Choi for several years; will emphasize applications of blended data in surveys and censuses. our website (http://washstat.org) is October 17, 3:00 p.m. EDT maintained by Chris Moriarity. How Rare Is Rare? The Importance of Validation, given by Aric Each of these outlets provides Frauke Krueter announcements and descriptions LaBarr, associate professor, North Carolina State University’s Institute of forthcoming events, volunteer for Advanced Analytics, will address useful and appropriate methods opportunities, and listings of of model and results validation using blended data, introducing the both job opportunities and the target shuffling technique. November 21, 1:00 p.m. EST credentials of members seeking Introduction to Python for Data Science, given by Hunter Glanz, new positions. assistant professor, California Polytechnic State University, will cover The WSS mailing list has been how to use Python for data manipulation in preparation for machine managed by Vince Massimini learning and present examples using open source government data. Aric LaBarr since about 1994, according to the January 16, 1:00 p.m. EST WSS history document, for which Interpretability vs. Explainability in Machine Learning for High- a new draft has been submitted for Stakes Decisions, given by Cynthia Rudin, associate professor, Duke review by Dwight Brock. University, will introduce interpretable machine learning models, Coordination of communica- which come with their own explanations that are faithful to what the tion and social media outlets (e.g., model actually computes. These models are contrasted with black box Twitter and Meetup), handled by models, presenting applications from the criminal justice system and Phil Kalina, has been improved health care. TBD Hunter Glanz this year by WSS Communications Officer Leanna Moron. Differential Privacy, given by Matthew Graham, US Census Bureau I hope this gives you a taste Center for Economic Studies, will introduce differential privacy con- for how active WSS is and pro- cepts with an emphasis on census data (as opposed to sample survey vides you with encouragement to data). Special topics such as formal privacy protection for skewed pop- learn, socialize, and serve in the ulations and blended data considerations will also be addressed. TBD coming year. This series began in September and runs through March 2020 If you have any questions about (excluding December 2019). At its conclusion, GSS and SSS hope to Cynthia Rudin membership or participation in organize a short series of case studies on real-life applications, also con- the WSS, email Tom Krenzke at ducted virtually. Not pictured: [email protected]. n Contact Jenny Thompson, GSS chair-elect, at Katherine.J. Matthew [email protected] with questions or suggestions. n Graham

october 2019 amstat news 13 NISS ‘Statistics Serving Society’ Forums on Gun Violence Honor Ingram Olkin Glenn Johnson, Lingzhou Xue, and James Rosenberger

Getting Involved NISS is reconfiguring the Ingram Olkin Forum committee and seeking individuals interested in pursuing the distinctive hallmarks of inclusivity and societal impact through scholarship Ingram Olkin espoused by helping to identify and plan future forums. The NISS Ingram Olkin Committee looks to host additional events concerning topics having serious impact on society. Information about the gun violence workshop and future events, including event recordings, is available on the NISS website at www.niss.org.

Ingram Olkin

ngram Olkin (1924–2016) Inaugural Forum To address the twin concerns was a principal founder of Focuses on Gun of adequate data and informative the National Institute of Violence analysis, this forum assembled StatisticalI Sciences (NISS) and a working group consisting of The inaugural S3 Forum was an internationally known statisti- a two-day workshop held in criminologists and sociologists cian whose work stressed the Alexandria, Virginia, June with experience in gun violence importance of statistical thinking 26–27. With the coopera- issues and statisticians with inter- when studying major societal tion and support of the ASA est in and expertise to tackle these problems. He was professor and Statistical and Applied concerns. The program suggested emeritus and chair of statistics Mathematical Sciences there are many problems that and education at Stanford Institute (SAMSI), this forum beckon an increasing number of University. Ingram was also examined gun violence and statisticians to get involved. admired for his inclusive invited statisticians to contrib- mentoring approaches with ute to its understanding. Emerging Data Sources junior researchers under his care That gun violence persists as a At the forum, both Erica L. and even individuals he had just vexing problem in the US needs Smith of the Bureau of Justice met. In particular, he was little explanation. Numerous Statistics and Jonathan Lewin of known as an advocate for foundations and organizations the Chicago Police Department improving the status and num- have recognized more research spoke about available data ber of women in academia. is needed since adequate infor- sources related to gun violence. Ingram’s daughter, Julia Olkin, mation and insight is lacking The Department of Justice has a professor of mathematics at Cal about the ownership and use number of data collections avail- State - East Bay, continues to of firearms, the causes and con- able for use, but many challenges support this spirit of caring and sequences of their use, and the exist for obtaining reliable infor- scholarship through her work with effects of interventions and tech- mation from them. Exploiting NISS. With the help of Julia nological innovations. The soci- recent innovative high-tech and many others, NISS honors ological context and implications investments, the Chicago Police her father’s memory by sponsor- on health and law enforcement Department has begun system- ing the newly formed Ingram involve a variety of disciplines, atically collecting, analyzing, and Olkin Statistics Serving Society and the spectrum of questions acting upon the data it collects (S3) forums. that arise affect policymakers at regarding gun usage. These forums intend to engage all levels. Implicit is that obtain- Trends in and Policing scientists and stakeholders in ing adequate information and Gun Violence addressing the challenging issues understanding requires more facing contemporary society and A number of presentations pro- research, data of high quality, vided participants with a broader exploring the roles statisticians and and incisive analyses. data scientists can play. understanding of the types of

14 amstat news october 2019 investigations underway related • Jens Ludwig of The to discuss the presentations and to gun violence. Criminologists University of Chicago, consider additional research Charles Loeffler of the University who spoke about working needed to improve the available of Pennsylvania and Rick with the Chicago Police evidence. The results from these Rosenfeld, Janet Lauritsen, and Department discussions and the outcomes of Ted Lentz of the University of the forum will be presented in a Missouri-St. Louis all presented • David Hemenway of Harvard University, who forthcoming white paper. research evidence on how gun The principal purpose of the violence relates to the societal reported on work investigat- 3 ing the use of firearms by Ingram Olkin S forums is to factors concerning both the police officers across states highlight an important issue and perpetrators and victims of gun the opportunities for statistical violence and the work needed to • Greg Ridgeway of the involvement. It was clear this unravel these relationships. Philip University of Pennsylvania, first forum was able to engage a J. Cook of Duke University who presented work analyz- substantial number of criminolo- described the importance of bet- ing the characteristics of offi- gists, statisticians, and others to ter investigations of shootings cers involved in shootings begin thinking about and work- and differences in the reports ing to make connections across depending on the existence of Roundtable Working disciplinary lines that will help a fatality. And in a talk related Groups in understanding and mitigating to successful identification of After each session, participants the effects of gun violence. n shooters, Heike Hofmann of took part in roundtable groups Iowa State University described recent advances in analyzing the striations on bullets as a means of identifying a unique source. Assessing Gun Violence Risks and Evaluating Initiatives / Police Shootings A number of presentations addressed the efforts and initiatives underway and programs in place to better understand these investigations. These speakers included the following: Sacramento, California • Terry Schell of the RAND Corporation, who identified February 20-22 2020 the best models and their assumptions • John MacDonald of the University of Pennsylvania, REGISTER TODAY who described a random- CSP offers courses, tutorials, concurrent sessions, and poster sessions ized place-based controlled aimed at helping applied statisticians solve real-world problems. experiment demonstrating reduced gun violence Early registration closes January 9 • Yifan Zhang of Stanford University, who talked about the LongSHOT initiative LEARN MORE AT WW2.AMSTAT.ORG/CSP.

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STATtr@k My Path to Accreditation: How to Bolster Your Statistical Career

followed the instructions on the ASA website and put together an application. It wasn’t long after that I had my GStat accreditation. In addition to the aforementioned benefits, being a GStat provides the opportunity for my professional progress to be reviewed by members of the Accreditation Committee for full PStat status. The accreditation contact, Donna Lalonde, and I ike many statisticians, I enjoy reflecting. have bonded over my numerous inquiries (maybe a These days, I’ve found myself reflecting upon few more than she would have liked), and she has the past few years working as the research always given me quick and helpful feedback. statisticianL at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Since receiving my GStat accreditation, I’ve been Being an ASA member and accredited Graduate actively preparing to apply for the PStat. Some of Statistician (GStat) has significantly helped me stay the requirements are straightforward, but neverthe- involved with the statistical community and con- less critical: You must be an ASA member, adhere to tinue furthering my technical and leadership skills ethical standards, and meet educational and expe- in practicing statistics. I’d like to share with you riential requirements. Though these standards are why I joined the ASA and sought the entry-level important, I am going to focus on three additional GStat accreditation, as well as how I have been pre- PStat requirements as I share my experiences and paring myself for the full Professional Statistician tips with you. (PStat) accreditation. I hope my experiences help Jeanne Li graduated you plan your career in statistics, especially if you Professional Competence summa cum laude are just beginning your statistics journey. Evidence of professional competence may vary from Colorado State Considering accreditation and professional activi- depending on where you practice statistics or conduct University with a BS in psychology. After ties early on may add value to your career as a stat- research, as almost every domain has a need for stat- completing her first istician or data scientist and open doors to com- isticians. For those who conduct research, whether in MA in psychology munity and mentorship. academia or industry, publications can be important, from the University Though this is my first job after graduate school, though not the only components necessary to demon- of California, Santa it didn’t take long to acclimate. A few months in and strate your professional competence. Toward this end, Barbara, she earned I was fully enjoying my part in collaborating with I have published a few peer-reviewed research articles her second MA in statistics and clinicians on medical research. But as I was (and still and have a few under review. graduated first in am) the sole research statistician in my organization, As I have performed research in both graduate her class. She has I felt the need to find a statistical community, so I school and my current job, I have come to realize been working as the could connect with peers, talk about career paths, collaboration is a critical component in conduct- research statistician and stay up to date on statistical developments. My ing and publishing quality work. Collaboration is at Santa Barbara supervisor encouraged me to look for a mentor in invaluable, as you get to learn from and capitalize Cottage Hospital for three years, applying statistics and join a statistical association. I did some on each other’s domains of expertise. On the flip her statistical research, which is as much a hobby as it is a profes- side, there is the possibility complications can arise. knowledge to sion for me, and found the ASA. One experience that sticks out to me is collabo- biomedical research. As soon as I joined the ASA in 2017, the prospect rating with a resident physician on a viral infection of accreditation drew my attention. Not only would study. The research process was going smoothly, and it provide a measure of assurance to my stakeholders, the preliminary results were presented at an infec- but it would also allow me to take continuing edu- tious disease conference. However, as the doctor was cation courses at ASA conferences at a discounted about to move on to her fellowship program across rate—providing an extra incentive for my employer. the country, her availability for writing a manu- As GStat only requires an advanced degree (PStat script became limited. I debated long and hard. I calls for a substantial amount of work experience), was not the lead or senior investigator on this proj- GStat was the right level of accreditation for me. I ect and did not want to overstep my role; however,

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I had put a substantial amount of effort into the and we need to keep up. Additionally, interpersonal study and wanted to see it through to publication. career skills are usually not offered in graduate school, I finally expressed my interest to both the resident even though they are critical for professional success, physician and senior investigator and was able to not to mention moving up the career ladder. take over and publish an original research article as To keep pace with statistical advances and connect the lead author. with peers outside your organization, attend confer- My takeaways from this experience are the fol- ences. The ASA organizes many statistical conferenc- lowing: 1) make your goals known so others can es throughout the year. Personally, I have attended help you accomplish them, which may also be in the Conference on Statistical Practice (CSP) and their interest, and 2) collaboration is a dynamic pro- Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS), cess, so don’t shy away from opportunities when an both of which were extremely beneficial. My favor- emerging leader is needed. ite experiences include connecting with mentors and peers, attending short courses for formal continuing Communication Skills education, and hearing presentations from statisti- No matter how savvy a statistician or data scientist cians and data scientists whose work may be different you are, if you can’t get the message across to your from my own. I’m always fascinated by the cutting- audience in a way that is easily accessible to them, edge methodologies we constantly develop and use you will probably have a hard time affecting your col- in our field and the extent to which our work affects leagues and the business surrounding your work. I other sectors. became conscious about improving my communi- The ASA has been an eager advocate for statisti- cation skills once I realized they are crucial on both cians pursuing leadership roles—one of my favorite a professional and interpersonal level. topics to read about in Amstat News. Unfortunately, To improve, I’ve read a few books about effective outside of MBA programs, career and leadership communication and public speaking. This has been skills are often not taught in school and we have to tremendously helpful for learning tactics to engage pick them up on the job or through some type of audiences. You may have heard that speakers should formal training. start presentations with a joke or story to captivate I was thrilled when I found out I was selected for their audience, but we are often too serious to make a leadership program within my organization earlier jokes and notorious for raining on the storytelling this year. Health Professionals Institute is a rigorous parade. In our defense, stories are anecdotal and often program comprised of 17 courses and a capstone outliers, especially the good ones. project. It is designed to cultivate emerging leaders. It took me a while to change this mindset. After I’m well on my way and have learned so much about all, when I communicate—or especially present—a working with different personalities, having difficult topic, it’s not about me or what I want to deliver; conversations, and negotiating. If this type of career it’s about what my audience can take away from training is important to you, I recommend finding what I deliver. Therefore, it’s a good idea to tailor an employer that offers similar continuing education your communication style to your audience so the programs when you look for a job. technical material you present can be received easily. On the whole, earning my GStat accreditation Analogies can be a good alternative if you’re not a and becoming involved with the ASA has made natural storyteller. Your audience would appreciate my statistical career a fulfilling journey thus far, a commonly understood analogy or one that is spe- and I am excited to pursue the PStat accreditation. cific to their field. I encourage anyone with a substantial quantitative component to their advanced degree to reach out Professional Development to members of the ASA Accreditation Committee Whether you’re finishing your degree or just starting (see ww2.amstat.org/committees/commdetails. your statistical career, you’ve come a long way to be cfm?txtComm=CBNORG01). where you are today. However, it is not the end of I hope my experiences and advice from the world your professional development journey. New meth- of statistics are helpful as you walk your own path. n odologies in statistics emerge and advance quickly—

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STATS4GOOD Joseph Gastwirth Receives Karl E. Peace Award for Betterment of Society

Getting Involved inequalities, to combat discrimi- courtroom, Gastwirth’s work has September included the Day of Civic Hacking, when Data nation, and to advance civil rights been important to the develop- for Good volunteers in communities across the country and social justice.” ment of data-driven policy on gather to create data-driven solutions that make local As an author, Gastwirth’s books economic inequality, discrimina- government work more efficiently and effectively. This have provided much-needed tion, and human rights. Steve means October is the best time to put together a team instruction for legal professionals Pierson, the ASA’s Director of and start planning for next year. You can learn more on essential statistical concepts. Science Policy, said, “I’m pleased about the Day of Civic Hacking at Code for America (www. He has also developed tools for that Joseph Gastwirth is the recipi- codeforamerica.org). statisticians working in the legal ent of the Peace Award. Gastwirth’s This is also recruiting season for summer interns. Most arena, including co-authoring the contributions to the betterment hiring companies will be involved in giving back to R package lawstat (see http://bit. of society have been broad and the community in some manner. University students ly/2kEbFJp). This package per- immense. In my science policy interested in Data for Good can look for companies with a forms several statistical tests and work for the ASA, Gastwirth and track record of using statistics for the greater good. creates plots, providing real- his work frequently come up as world examples drawn from law, examples of the impact of statistics he American Statistical economics, policy, and biostatis- and statisticians on policy issues.” MORE ONLINE Association has awarded tics. Additionally, he has devel- To help people and estab- Learn more about the the 2019 Karl E. Peace oped mathematical methods to lish justice, statistical human Karl E. Peace Award TAward for Outstanding Statistical capture and assess difficult-to- rights advocacy comes back to and previous recipients at http://bit.ly/2mlpkFF. Contributions for the Betterment quantify concepts such as fair- policy, practice, and law. This of Society to statistician, author, ness in financial dealings. makes Gastwirth’s work valu- and professor Joseph L. Gastwirth Gastwirth’s early work focused able in turning statistical studies of The George Washington on robust and nonparametric sta- into effective action. Examples University (GW). tistical methods. A long-time pro- described in the lawstat package Established in memory of fessor at GW, he became involved include gerrymandering, where biostatistician and industry leader in the study of economic inequal- the effective power of a person’s Karl E. Peace, the award is given ity—an area in which both robust vote varies by voting district, and each year to a person making “sub- and nonparametric methods are inequities in per-pupil student stantial contributions to the sta- important. Statistical challenges in funding. While many might tistical profession, contributions economic distributions and equal- think of a Gini Index as a mea- that have led in direct ways to ity, in turn, led to statistics for law sure of economic disparity, it has With a PhD improving the human condition. and policy. This resulted in teach- no inherent economic tie and can in statistical Recipients will have demonstrated ing and writing for attorneys and be applied to variance in a variety astrophysics, David through their accomplishments law students, consulting on legal of contexts. lawstat can calculate Corliss leads a data science team at Fiat their commitment to service for cases, and working on govern- the Gini Index as a measure of Chrysler. He is the the greater good.” ment policy. Gastwirth served as unequal distribution and pro- founder of Peace- Gastwirth’s work lies at the a visiting adviser to the Office of vide plots and visualizations to Work, a volunteer intersection of statistical analy- Management and Budget Office help explain statistical results of cooperative of sis and the law. His career in of Statistical Policy and a con- Data for Good projects to the statisticians and data statistics has focused on mak- sultant for the Bureau of Labor nonstatistical audiences needed scientists providing analytic support for ing an impact on peoples’ lives Statistics on employment inequal- to deliver effective action on the charitable groups through the law and the many ity. This work on the legal side of problems we seek to address. and applying ways it affects society. In giving Data for Good led to consulting In an era when statistical sci- statistical methods the award, the committee noted engagements and subsequent ence is politicized and weapon- in issue-driven Gastwirth’s “distinguished career papers on statistical methods for ized, the Gastwirth focuses on advocacy. as a leading authority in the area law, including pyramid schemes using statistics to make a difference of legal statistics, who has devel- and securities. and better society. Working at the oped novel methodological and This lifetime of achievement intersection of science and policy, theoretical statistical approaches in research and writing has had his sound and reliable science for to address economic and health a wide-ranging effect on many the greater good can both inspire areas. Beyond its impact in the and guide our work. n 18 amstat news october 2019 meetings

SDSS 2020 to Feature Refereed Submissions David Hunter

he 2020 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) in Pittsburgh will feature a new system of refereeing contributed papers Tmodeled on the process used by several high-profile conferences, most notably in the computing community, that have become increasingly popular among statisticians. The submission period will begin in December David Hunter and last about a month. Details are forthcoming in a future issue of Amstat News and on the conference Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (stock photo) website at ww2.amstat.org/meetings/sdss/2020. MORE ONLINE For those who may be unfamiliar with the merits The conference, to take place at The Westin Join the conference of submitting to conferences as opposed to journals, Pittsburgh, will begin with a day of workshops and mailing list by visiting the main benefits are quicker turnaround time and a an evening mixer on Wednesday, June 3, and run the SDSS2020 website rigid shorter format that can make manuscript prep- through mid-afternoon on Saturday, June 6. at ww2.amstat.org/ aration easier. In the case of many well-established Located at the southwest edge of the Strip District meetings/sdss/2020. conferences that attract thousands of submissions, (www.visitpittsburgh.com/neighborhoods/strip-dis- there is also prestige associated with acceptance onto trict)—home to an assortment of restaurants, bou- a conference program. tiques, old-style grocers, and more—The Westin is While we do not expect the first year of refereed also less than a mile from the scenic confluence of the submissions at SDSS to generate thousands, several Allegheny and Monongahela rivers known as Point data science–related journals have expressed interest State Park, or simply The Point. We have paid atten- in publishing the accepted manuscripts, which will tion to the survey responses of past SDSS attendees increase the prestige of these acceptances. who hoped for more unscheduled time to experience The submission process, as well as the scientific the host city, and the downtown Pittsburgh location program of SDSS in its entirety, will be organized will allow ample opportunity to explore. Beyond the into six tracks: machine learning, education, soft- venue itself, Pittsburgh is home to several world-class ware and data science technologies, computational universities and a thriving high-tech sector heavily statistics, practice and applications, and data visual- influenced by data science. ization. If you are doing work that might fit well into In addition to submitted manuscripts, the SDSS one or more of these data science–related tracks, you 2020 program will consist of invited sessions, keynote should consider submitting an abstract to SDSS. addresses, and poster sessions. Stay tuned for details! n

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Olivia Brown/ASA Attendees mingle during the Claire Bowen talks to attendees JSM Opening Mixer. during the JSM Opening Mixer. Olivia Brown/ASA Olivia Brown/ASA

Bhramar Mukherjee (left) and Sastry Pantula (right) present Hadley Wickham of RStudio with the COPSS Presidents’ Award.

ASA President Karen Kafadar during her Tuesday night address

Talithia Williams speaks to the Olivia Brown/ASA Eric Sampson/ASA JSM Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program attendees. JSM2019 REMINISCING ON THE IMPACT Rich Levine, JSM 2019 Program Chair

et us reflect on yet another The meetings got off to a only audience enjoyed Mark successful JSM, against a smashing start with a jam-packed Glickman’s talk, “Data Tripper: backdrop of the awe- Sunday schedule. Nothing like Distinguishing Authorship of inspiringL Colorado Front Range. starting the conference with Beatles Songs Through Data I will remember fondly riding your ABCs and CSI (the statis- Science.” Glickman illustrated the free mall shuttle up and tics version), featuring introduc- musical feature selection on his down 16th Street, reveling in the tory overview lectures (IOLs) by guitar as he quantified the proba- JSM downtown signposts wel- Christian Robert on approximate bility that either Paul McCartney coming us to Denver, connect- Bayesian computation and Hal or John Lennon wrote certain ing with statistical colleagues Stern on forensic statistics. The Beatles songs. Eighth-grader lounging for a coffee break at IOLs prepared attendees for more Ray Levine shared his intrigue the Hyatt, and being greeted by technical talks on these themes with the musical riffs to illus- the big blue bear wanting to get later in the week. trate data science concepts. And in on our festivities. We for sure The second annual JSM 10th-grader Katherine Wang, an fulfilled ASA President Karen Public Lecture was scheduled on accomplished pianist and saxo- Kafadar’s theme of Statistics: Sunday evening to attract more phonist, opined on the inter- Making an Impact at the foot- local interest. That time slot was a weaving of machine learning hills of the Rockies! huge success, as a standing-room- and music theory, excited by the data science prospects.

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Carol Corrado speaks at the This is the seventh year in which statisti- Business and cians have gotten together for a pick-up Economic Outlook basketball game during JSM. From left: Luncheon. Ryan Tibshirani of Carnegie Mellon, Rob Tibshirani of Stanford, Daniel McDonald of Indiana University, and Dave Zhao of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mark Glickman entertains a standing-room-only audience during his talk “Data Tripper: Distinguishing Authorship of Beatles Songs Through Data Science.”

Samantha Morrison (left) and Gabriella Silva in the exhibit hall Olivia Brown/ASA Olivia Brown/ASA JSM BY THE NUMBERS 6,674 Attendees 3,419 ASA Members “ Coming off 1,197 Professional 665 Sessions #JSM2019 I’m struck Development Registrations 455 Speed Presentations by how many smart, 70 Exhibiting Companies 473 Individual Posters generous, innovative, and fun people I got to meet with and learn from. Feeling The first day concluded with surprising, given my “soap box pretty lucky that I stumbled the traditional kick-off Opening invitation” toward this direction Mixer, at which attendees took in in a November 2018 Amstat into stats and data science.” the invited poster session, Data Art News piece. I was excited to see Miles Ott • @Miles_Ott Show, and exhibit hall booths and not only the growing popularity snacks. The electronic posters fea- of speed and poster sessions, but tured themes this year: geophysi- also the intense discussions and collaboration, uncertainty quan- cal modeling, learning analytics, energy between speakers and tification and visualization, and medical imaging/neurosciences, individuals at the many poster analyses of microbiome data and object-oriented data analysis, and sessions I attended. real-world data/electronic health uncertainty quantification. records. And, of course, we had Though a late first night, the Plenary Talks and talks and discussions about the excitement continued through Lectures imminent Census 2020! The the week for the 6,674 JSM JSM 2019 featured talks and slides from many talks may be attendees. Of particular note, discussions on a wide range of viewed via the online program JSM 2019 upped a number of statistical and data science topics at ww2.amstat.org/meetings/ records set at JSM 2018: number of the day, including big data sur- jsm/2019/onlineprogram. Let us of abstracts, number of speed pre- veys, data science education, deep highlight the plenary talks and sentations, and number of post- learning, reproducible research, lectures that played out through ers. The latter two records are not statistical communication and JSM week.

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Florence Nightingale David students’ statistics education Lecture: Susan Helen Zhang, “Breaking the needs for succeeding in this data- Ellenberg Curse of Dimensionality in rich information age. Nonparametrics” We had a unique late-break- Elizaveta Levina, ing session this year organized by “Hierarchical Communities Xuming He. A panel including Bin in Networks: Theory and Yu, David Banks, David Madigan, Practice” Dylan Small, Marianthi Markatou, • Noether Lectures: and Michael Jordan discussed the Matthew Reimherr, findings from an NSF-sponsored “Challenges in Privacy with workshop and project in “Statistics Functional Data” at a Crossroads: Who Is for the Deming Lecture: Michael Kosorok, “Some Challenge?” The panelists shared Nicholas Fisher Recent Developments in their perspectives on a vision for Precision Medicine” statistics in the next decade of this data science era while Nandini • Rietz Lecture, Yoav Benjamini, Kannan moderated. “Selective Inference: The Silent Every year, memorial sessions Following are the four plenary Killer of Replicability” honor recently deceased statisti- talks: • Sirken Lecture, Judith Lessler, • ASA President’s Address cians who had a major impact on “Is Survey Research a Fact-Based our field. This year, we remem- and Awards, Karen Kafadar, Endeavor?” “Reinforcing the Impact of bered and celebrated the lives • Wald Lectures, Statistics on Society” Trevor Hastie, of Larry Brown as organized by “Statistical Learning with • ASA President’s Invited Address, Tony Cai and Linda Zhao, Jayanta Sparsity” Ghosh as organized by Subhashis Teresa Sullivan, “Coming to Our The goal of the IOLs, as the Census: How Social Statistics Ghoshal, Susanne Rassler as name suggests, is to introduce Underpin Our Democracy (and organized by Florian Meinfelder, MORE ONLINE Republic)” JSM attendees to state-of-the-art Tom Short as organized by Allan Plenary session areas in statistics. We mentioned Rossman, Herb Spirer as orga- • Deming Lecture, Nicholas webcasts are two IOLs earlier, though all six nized by Megan Price, and Joan available at https:// Fisher, “Walking with Giants: A were aimed at introducing popular ww2.amstat.org/ Research Odyssey” Staniswallis as organized by Ori subjects seen throughout the JSM Rosen. The JSM program also fea- meetings/jsm/2019/ • COPSS Awards and Fisher webcasts/index.cfm. program. In order of offering at tured sessions discussing the sta- Lecture, Paul Rosenbaum, “An JSM were the following: tistical legacy of David Blackwell, Observational Study Used to View presentation • Michael Lavine reintroduced organized by Sastry Pantula, to cel- Illustrate Methodology for Such slides at the likelihood principle in ebrate Blackwell’s 100th birthday; ww2.amstat.org/ Studies” “Assessing Procedures vs. Larry Brown, organized by Chaitra meetings/jsm/ Additionally, JSM featured 2019/onlineprogram/ Assessing Evidence,” his perspec- Nagaraja, on his contributions index.cfm. a number of named lectures (in tive in this post p<0.05 era. to graduate student education; alphabetical order): • Jennifer Hill and Ari Rosen Florence Nightingale David, orga- Photos on this page • Florence Nightingale David presented “Causal Inference in nized by Amanda Golbeck, as part by Eric Sampson/ASA Lecture, Susan Ellenberg, Modern Statistics,” a reoccurring of the new COPSS award; and W. “Statisticians and the Evolution topic each day of JSM given the Edwards Deming, organized by of the Randomized Clinical advent of personalized medicine, Joyce Orsini. Trial” electronic medical records, and • IMS Presidential Address and big data in observational studies. An Invitation Awards, Xiao-Li Meng, “011, • Walt Piegorsch and David I will close by inviting you to get 010111, and 011111100100” Banks presented “Modern Risk involved with JSM in any capac- • Medallion Lectures: Analysis,” hitting the modern ity you can. The experience is data-analytic settings of environ- rewarding and the relationships Yee Whye Teh, “On mental risk and adversarial risk. you develop—I will predict with Statistical Thinking in Deep confidence—are rich and long Learning” • Hollylynne Lee, William Finzer, and Beth Chance lasting. I look forward to con- David Dunson, “Learning presented “Pedagogy and tributing to JSM 2020 and seeing and Exploiting Low- Technology for Teaching everyone in the City of Brotherly Dimensional Structure in Statistics,” which was moderated Love next August! n High-Dimensional Data” by Allan Rossman and addressed 22 amstat news october 2019 meetings

Many Honored at Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony

special feature of the Joint Statistical ASA/MAA Joint Commission on Meetings is the ASA President’s Undergraduate Statistics, contributor to FLOURNOY Address and Awards, during which the Beyond AP Statistics workshop series, Athe Founders Award winners are announced member of the Statistics Careers for AP and the new ASA Fellows are inducted. Statistics and Other K–12 Classrooms The 2019 Founders Award went to Nancy Working Group, and contributor to the Flournoy, William I. Notz, Allan J. Rossman, ASA GAISE report; for serving on the Dalene Stangl, and David A. van Dyk. editorial board and conducting a long- running series of interviews with leaders Nancy Flournoy in statistics education for the Journal of University of Missouri Statistics Education; and for serving as the For leadership in statistics at the national 2007 JSM Program Chair. NOTZ level; for mentorship of women in statistics, including serving as a lifetime role model Dalene Stangl for countless colleagues as they began their Carnegie Mellon University careers and establishing NSF programs for For advancing the cause of women women and minorities; for career-long ser- in statistics through leadership of the vice to the ASA, including instilling a new Committee on Women in Statistics and vibrancy into the Council of Sections at a founding of the Conference on Women critical time and serving on numerous com- in Statistics and Data Science; for leader- mittees, including chairing the Committee ship in ASA publications as the executive on Nominations and the Committee on editor of CHANCE, the reviews editor Research Funding in Statistics and serving for JASA and The American Statistician, on the Fellows Committee, the Committee and a member of the Committee on on Meetings, and the Committee on Publications; for leadership in the ASA’s Women in Statistics. Statistical Education Section and Section on Bayesian Statistical Science; for exten- ROSSMAN William I. Notz sive committee service as a member of The Ohio State University the Membership Council, Youden Award For outstanding section leadership, includ- Committee, Scientific and Public Affairs ing serving as chair of the Physical and Advisory Committee, Media Experts Engineering Sciences Section and Section Committee, and SPAIG Committee. on Statistical Education and as vice chair of the Council of Sections Governing Board; David A. van Dyk for outstanding publications leadership, Imperial College London including service as editor of Technometrics For pioneering leadership in the production and the Journal of Statistics Education and promotion of ASA journals and pub- STANGL (JSE); and for leadership in statistics edu- lications, including initiatives in electronic cation as a member of the ASA/MAA Joint publication and reproducible research as Committee on Undergraduate Statistics, as editor of Journal of Computational and chair and as executive committee member Graphical Statistics and reviews editor of of the Statistics Education Section, as edi- JASA and The American Statistician; for sig- tor of JSE, and for his financial support of nificant contributions to the ASA’s efforts the Best JSE Paper Award. to establish the role of statistics in data science, including the drafting of the ASA’s Allan J. Rossman statement on this topic; and for leadership Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo of the Statistical Computing Section, ser- VAN DYK For impact at all levels of statistics educa- vice on the Publications Committee, and tion as an officer of the Statistical Education service on the ASA Board of Directors. Section, member and chair of the Photos on this page by Eric Sampson/ASA

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2019 Fellows Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA

Each year, Daniel W. Apley Haoda Fu Jiashun Jin Lei Nie Tim Brian Swartz ASA Fellows Northwestern Eli Lilly and Carnegie Mellon FDA Simon Fraser University Company University University are nominated by Davy Paindaveine the membership Huiman X. Mulugeta Katerina Kechris Université Libre de Sally W. Thurston and selected by the Barnhart Gebregziabher Colorado School of Bruxelles University of Duke University Medical University Public Health Rochester Eun Sug Park ASA Committee of South Carolina on Fellows. Fifty- Derek R. Charles L. Texas A&M Alexander nine Fellows were Bingham Michele Guindani Kooperberg Transportation Tsodikov Simon Fraser University of Fred Hutchinson Institute University of inducted this year. University California, Irvine Cancer Research Michigan Judea Pearl Center Babette A. Sebastien J-P. A. University of Pei Wang Brumback Haneuse Eric Benjamin California, Los Icahn School of University of Harvard T.H. Laber Angeles Medicine at Mount Florida Chan School of North Carolina Sinai Igor Prünster Public Health State University Ann R. Cannon Bocconi University William J. Welch Cornell College Alexandra L. Michael Leo University of British Brian James Reich Hanlon LeBlanc Columbia Hua-Hua Chang Virginia Tech Fred Hutchinson North Carolina David Christopher Purdue University Cancer Research State University Miguel A. Hernan Woods Jinbo Chen Center Jason A. Roy Harvard University University of University of School of Public Bo Li Rutgers University Southampton Pennsylvania Health University of Cynthia Rudin Min Yang Gerda Claeskens Illinois at Urbana- Craig A. Hill Duke University University of Illinois KU Leuven Champaign RTI International Joseph L. Schafer at Chicago Keith N. Crank Jia Li Jianhua Hu US Census Bureau Xiangrong Yin Part-Time Penn State University of Jonathan Scott University of Consulting University Columbia Schildcrout Kentucky Catherine M. Yehua Li Rebecca A. Vanderbilt Menggang Yu Crespi University of Hubbard University University of University of California, Riverside University of John Scott Wisconsin-Madison California, Los Pennsylvania Jeff D. Maca DA Lanju Zhan Angeles Bayer g Peter B. Imrey AbbVie Yingying Fan Pharmaceuticals J. Michael Cleveland Clinic Shaughnessy Mu Zhu University Nandita Mitra of Southern Hongkai Ji Portland State University of University of University California Johns Hopkins Pennsylvania Waterloo Bloomberg School Michael P. Fay David A. Stephens Hui Zou of Public Health Samuel Mueller McGill University National Institute University of University of

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Claire Kelling, winner of the 2019 Gertrude M. Many more people were hon- Cox Scholarship in Statistics Award ored for their contributions to various causes that advance the field of statistics. Following are some of the awards and recipients: Editor Appreciation Award The following individuals were recognized for their work in publishing educational and insightful ASA journals:

Dan Apley Editor, Technometrics 2017–2019

F. Jay Breidt Steven J. Schwager accepts Editor, Reviews, Journal of the the 2019 Mentoring Award. American Statistical Association and The American Statistician 2017–2019 Honorable mentions for Li Cai the 2019 Gertrude M. Cox Co-Editor, Journal of Educational Scholarship in Statistics Award and Behavioral Statistics (from left): Emily Hector, Sierra 2015–2019 Merkes, and Sarah Ryan Scott R. Evans Editor, CHANCE annually since 1989 to encour- relevant state and national 2014–2019 age women to enter statistically committees; for academic Dan McCaffrey oriented professions. This year’s success in pursuit of a dual Co-Editor, Journal of Educational Gertrude Cox Scholarship went to doctoral degree in statistics and Behavioral Statistics Maria Jahja and Claire Kelling. and social data analytics at The 2015–2019 Pennsylvania State University; To Maria Jahja, statistics PhD and for promising independent Gertrude Cox student at Carnegie Mellon research in spatial statistics Scholarship in Statistics University, for academic suc- related to criminology. cess; for multiple interdisci- Born in 1900, Gertrude Cox is Mentoring Award fondly known as the “First Lady plinary research achievements MORE ONLINE The ASA Mentoring Award hon- of Statistics” for her pioneer- that strengthen data-driven Didn’t make it to Denver? ors those recognized by their col- See pictures from the ing roles in the predominantly decision-making in areas leagues for their sustained efforts photo booth: https:// male-dominated discipline of including education, industry, to champion the work and devel- boothgallery.com/u/MiHi- statistics. Among her many acco- medicine, and public health, op the careers of statisticians. Entertainment/JSM-2019- lades and accomplishments, she as evidenced by many publi- Spotlight-Denver. The 2019 ASA Mentoring became the first woman—and cations, patents, and awards; Award honoree is Steven the first person—to earn a mas- for contributions to STEM Schwager of Cornell University Photos on this page by ter’s degree in statistics from Iowa outreach to middle- and high- Eric Sampson/ASA for more than 40 years of passion- State University, where she was school students; and for grow- ate dedication to the mentoring appointed assistant professor of ing leadership activities in her and personal and professional statistics in 1939. In 1940, she local community. welfare of students, co-workers, became professor of statistics at To Claire Kelling for her and colleagues; for teaching and North Carolina State University. extraordinary leadership and emphasizing that the role of stat- volunteerism in developing Jointly sponsored by the ASA istician goes well beyond math safe, supportive, and educa- Committee on Women in and includes characteristics and tionally rich environments, Statistics and the Caucus for values such as courtesy, respect, especially for girls and women, Women in Statistics, the Cox honesty, integrity, obligation, and scholarship has been presented including participation in

october 2019 amstat news 25 meetings Nathan Tintle and Beth Chance accept the Jackie Dietz Best Journal of Statistics Education Herbert Paper Award. Not pictured are co- Weisberg, authors Jake Clark, Karen Fischer, accepts the George Cobb, Soma Roy, Todd W.J. Dixon Swanson, and Jill VanderStoep. Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting. Nathan Tintle, Dordt College; Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA Jake Clark, University of Iowa; Karen Fischer, Mayo Clinic; Beth Chance, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo; George Cobb, Mount Holyoke; Soma Roy, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo; Todd Brown University School of Swanson, Hope College; and Ann Mwangi, Public Health; Moi Jill VanderStoep, Hope College, University School of Medicine; for their paper, “Assessing the Abraham Siika, and Moi Association Between Precourse University School of Medicine. Metrics of Student Preparation Causality in Statistics and Student Performance Education Award in Introductory Statistics: Established in 2013 by Judea Results from Early Data on Pearl, professor of computer sci- Simulation-Based Inference vs. ence and statistics at UCLA, this Nonsimulation-Based Inference.” award recognizes the work of an Waller Awards Peter Steiner, individual or team that enhanc- These honors—the Waller winner of the es the teaching and learning of Distinguished Teaching Career Causality in empathy; for inspiring and pro- causal inference in introduc- and Waller Education awards— Statistics Education viding council for many to pur- tory statistics coursework. Peter were established with a contribu- Award for the sue statistics as a career path; for Steiner, University of Wisconsin- tion from retired ASA Executive course “Design and teaching and inspiring mentees Madison, and Julian Schuessler, Analysis of Quasi- Director Ray Waller and his wife, to mentor others; for offering Universität Konstanz, are jointly Carolyn. The former recognizes Experiments for awarded the 2019 Causality Causal Inference” and providing support, encour- an individual for sustained excel- agement, and council in matters in Statistics Education Award lence in teaching and statistics of statistics, education, consult- for their respective cours- education, and the latter honors ing, professionalism, and life; for es, “Design and Analysis of an individual for innovation in the pushing mentees to achieve as Quasi-Experiments for Causal instruction of elementary statistics. much as possible, commending Inference” and “Causal Graphs.” our success, and telling us—when Both well-designed courses intro- The 2019 Waller Distinguished necessary—that failures occur for duce a range of course causal Teaching Career Award hon- each of us but we should not inference concepts accessibly and oree is Robert L. Gould of allow them to define us; and for rigorously to students working in the University of California, treating mentoring as his ‘main a range of applied sciences, and Be sure to check Los Angeles in recognition of job’ with a ‘life warranty.’ each makes an independent and his many years of outstanding the section complementary contribution to and chapter teaching and contributions to announcements Award of Outstanding statistical education in causality. and creative efforts in statistical Statistical Application for additional Jackie Dietz Best JSE education. award honorees. This award celebrates the authors of a paper that is an outstanding Paper Award Established in 2011, this award The 2019 Waller Education application of statistics in the Benjamin Photos on this page by is given to the best paper pub- Award honoree is Eric Sampson/ASA physical, biological, or medical Baumer from Smith College sciences. The 2019 Outstanding lished in the Journal of Statistics Education from the previous in recognition of his out- Statistical Application Award standing contributions to and honorees are Liangyuan Hu, year. The 2019 Jackie Dietz Best Journal of Statistics Education innovations in the teaching of Icahn School of Medicine at elementary statistics. Mount Sinai; Joseph Hogan, Paper Award honorees are

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Attendees enjoy specialty house-made donuts near Spotlight Denver. Photo by Olivia Brown/ASA

JSM2019 IN PHOTOS

From left: ASA President Karen Kafadar with winners of the Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award: Ethan Meyers, Andrea Foulkes, Nicholas Horton, and Benjamin Baumer. Not pictured: Krista Gile, David Jensen, Andrew McCallum, Sears Merritt, Nick Reich, Gareth Ross, and Amy Wagaman. Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA

From left: Jessica Utts, Nancy Geller, Teresa Sullivan, Karen Kafadar, and Lynne Billard. Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA

From left: Peter Bickel, Richard Lockhart, From left: 2019 Educational Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, and Sastry Pantula Ambassadors Carlos A. Diaz-Tufnio during Professor David Blackwell’s 100th and Vikash R. Satyal with ASA rep- Birthday Celebration: Impact on Diversity and resentative Andrew Baughman Statistics Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA

W.J. Dixon Award for Causalytics for his integrity and Karl E. Peace Award Excellence in Statistical excellence in statistical consult- The Peace award was established Consulting ing that fosters longstanding by Christopher K. Peace, son of Established through a gift from client relationships; for adding Karl E. Peace, on behalf of the the family of Wilfrid J. Dixon, to the statistical body of knowl- Peace family to honor the life this award recognizes outstanding edge and improving general sta- work of his father. The 2019 Karl contributions to the practice of tistical practice in varied areas of E. Peace Award for Outstanding statistical consulting. The 2019 application; and for promoting Statistical Contributions for the W.J. Dixon Award for Excellence greater understanding of statis- Betterment of Society honoree in Statistical Consulting recipi- tical analyses through skilled, is Joseph L. Gastwirth of The ent is Herbert Weisberg of effective communication. George Washington University

october 2019 amstat news 27 Attendees taste a variety of Denver microbrews in the Spotlight. Photo by Olivia Brown/ASA in recognition of a distinguished career as a leading authority in the area of legal statistics who has developed novel methodological and theoretical statistical approaches to address economic Sudipto Banerjee and health inequalities, to combat (University of California, discrimination, and to advance Los Angeles) accepts civil rights and social justice. the George W. Snedecor Harry V. Roberts Award. Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA Statistical Advocate Award In 2002, the Chicago Chapter established the Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award in honor of Harry V. Roberts, an exemplar of statistical advocacy. The award recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of those who have successfully advocated appropriate and effective uses of statistics and data-analytic approaches in business and the public sector. Additionally, the award recognizes the promotion of statistical reasoning by individuals who may or may not be statisticians. The 2019 Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award honoree is Howard Wainer. Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award Continuing Ed: Garrett The Wilks award honors the Grolemund presents Welcome memory and distinguished to the Tidyverse: Reproducible career of Samuel S. Wilks and is Data Science with R. Photo by bestowed upon a distinguished Eric Sampson/ASA individual who has made statistical contributions to the advancement of scientific or technical knowledge, ingenious application of existing knowledge, or successful activity in the fostering of cooperative scientific efforts that have been directly involved in matters of national defense or Narmadha Mohankumar of public interest. Kansas State University dis- The 2019 Wilks award hon- cusses her poster, “Accounting oree is Alan E. Gelfand of Duke for Location Uncertainty University for fundamental in Model-Based Distance breakthroughs in Bayesian sta- Sampling Methods.” tistical theory and methods and Photo by Olivia Brown/ASA his enrichment of the discipline Attendees view pieces (left) through outstanding contribu- “Rabbit” and “Banana” by Tom tions to mentoring, teaching, White during the Data Art service, and administration. n Show. Photo by Olivia Brown/ASA meetings Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program Celebrates 10 Years Developing Leaders, Growing Community, and Ensuring a Diverse Profession Dionne Swift and Brian Millen

embers of the JSM Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program (DWMP) Diversity Mentoring group Planning Committee gathered at the DenverM Hilton on the morning of July 28. In the coming hour, they would greet more than 110 statisticians and data scientists, there to participate in Dionne Swift moderates the 10th anniversary of the program. The commit- “Success Is Not Always tee members had spent months recruiting speakers Perfect” with panelists and mentors, setting the agenda, screening appli- (from left) Lloyd Edwards, cants, and securing needed funding. It was time to Renee Moore, and Elvis see it all come together. 2019 DWMP BY THE NUMBERS Martinez. Over the next 10 hours and coming days, students and early- to mid-career professionals from 4 Days of Interactive Sessions underrepresented groups engaged in interactive ses- 6 Corporate Sponsors sions such as the following: • Success in Graduate School 8 Sponsoring ASA Sections • Transformational Leadership 34 Mentor-Mentee Pairs MORE ONLINE • Career Success: Tips and Traps >110 Program Participants To view the 2019 DWMP agenda, including • Influencing Without Authority session abstracts, visit • Strategic Networking https://community. government and private sectors. Notably, multiple amstat.org/cmis/events/ • Developing Successful Mentoring alumni of the program served as speakers or panel- dwmp/dwmp2019. Relationships ists, underscoring the impact the program has had

• Effective Presentation Skills on developing today’s leaders. • Building Your Online Brand Overall, 34 mentor-mentee pairs were matched for 1-1 mentoring sessions, making this the largest • Interview and Career Search Tips DWMP to date. Reflecting on the program, DWMP Renee Moore of Emory University, Lloyd Co-Chair Brian Millen remarked, “While the Edwards of the University of Alabama at growth of the program and the many firsts realized Birmingham, and Elvis Martinez of Travelers on this 10th anniversary are significant, what’s most Insurance shared lessons from struggles they important is what those statistics represent: Our endured during their career journeys and encour- profession is growing stronger—with an engaged aged participants to embrace the message in each and diverse population base whose impact will be challenge they face, leverage mentors, and persevere tremendous! We look forward to the program’s con- through adversity. tinued impact on our profession for many years to DWMP speakers and panelists included estab- come, and we are grateful for the many individu- lished and emerging leaders in the statistics profes- als and organizations who have served or supported sion. Among them were Sally Morton (ASA presi- the program over the past 10 years. Together, we are dent, 2009), Sastry Pantula (ASA president, 2010), ensuring a bright future for our profession.” Dionne Price (ASA vice president-elect, 2021), For more information about the JSM Diversity Rob Santos (ASA president-elect, 2021), and lead- Workshop and Mentoring Program, contact Dionne ers from other statistics/biostatistics societies, as Swift, chair of the ASA Committee on Minorities in well as academic chairs and senior leaders from the Statistics, at [email protected]. n

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COPSS Honors Four with Awards Huixia Judy Wang, COPSS Treasurer/Secretary

he Committee of Presidents of Statistical Bhramar Societies (COPSS) pres- Mukherjee Tents awards annually to honor (left) and Alicia statisticians who have made out- Carriquiry present standing contributions to the Paul R. Rosenbaum profession. For 2019, four awards (University of were presented at the Joint Pennsylvania)with Statistical Meetings in Denver on the Fisher Award July 31 by COPSS Chair and Lectureship. Photo by Eric Bhramar Mukherjee and the Sampson/ASA award committee members. Hadley Wickham of RStudio Bhramar Mukherjee (left) and Lynne Billard present the is the winner of the 2019 Florence Nightingale David Award to Susan Ellenberg Presidents’ Award. (See the inter- (University of Pennsylvania). Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA view with Wickham on the following page.) and international committees Used to Illustrate Methodology Susan Ellenberg of the addressing major public health for Such Studies.” University of Pennsylvania is the challenges; and for serving as an Sudipto Banerjee of the 2019 F.N. David Award winner exceptional academic role model University of California, Los and first F.N. David Lecturer. for faculty and students.” Angeles is the recipient of the This award, sponsored jointly Ellenberg’s lecture was titled 2019 George W. Snedecor Award. by COPSS and the Caucus for “Statisticians and the Evolution of Granted biennially, the award Women in Statistics, is granted the Randomized Clinical Trial.” honors an individual who was biennially to a female statistician Paul R. Rosenbaum of the instrumental in the development who serves as a role model to other University of Pennsylvania is the of statistical theory in biometry women by her contributions to recipient of the 2019 R.A. Fisher with a noteworthy publication in the profession through excellence Award and Lectureship, which biometry within three years of the in research, leadership of multidis- honors both the contributions of award date. ciplinary collaborative groups, sta- Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher and the Banerjee’s award citation tistics education, or service to the work of a present-day statistician reads” for foundational contribu- professional societies. for advancement of statistical the- tion to the field of biometrics, Ellenberg’s award citation reads ory and applications. This annual especially for groundbreaking and “for impactful leadership roles at award recognizes outstanding fundamental work on Bayesian the NIH, FDA, and the University scholarship in statistical sciences hierarchical modeling and the of Pennsylvania developing and that has had a highly significant analysis of large spatial data sets; evaluating new methodologies and impact on scientific investigations. for significant contributions to the specialized approaches to improve Rosenbaum’s award citation mapping of disease incidence in the conduct of clinical trials; for reads “for pioneering contribu- space and time and the analysis of influencing ethical practice and tions to statistical methodol- environmental exposures.” leading development of important ogy for observational studies, Banerjee won the award for her regulatory policies; for leadership important applications of such publication, jointly written with in setting standards for clinical methodology to health out- A. Datta, A.O. Finley, and A.E. trial data-monitoring committees; comes studies, lucid books on Gelfand, titled, “Hierarchical for senior statistical leadership for statistical principles and meth- nearest-neighbor Gaussian pro- many multicenter clinical research odology for observational stud- cess models for large geostatis- network clinical trials; for distin- ies, and excellent mentoring.” tical datasets,” which appeared guished leadership in numerous Rosenbaum’s lecture was in the Journal of the American professional societies and national titled “An Observational Study Statistical Association. n 30 amstat news october 2019 Hadley Wickham Wins Prestigious COPSS Presidents’ Award

adley Wickham, chief scien- to take advantage of your ideas, and tist at RStudio, was hon- learning how to market yourself and ored with the 2019 COPSS your work ensures that people know Presidents’H Award at JSM in Denver. that you’re making something that This award is presented annually to can help them. Academics sometimes a young member of one of the see marketing as something dirty, but COPSS participating societies in if people don’t know that your work recognition of outstanding contribu- exists, it can’t help them! tions to the profession. C++ programmer! JJ is not just an Hadley Wickham’s award citation reads What one aspect of your research do amazing programmer; he’s also a Wickham “for influential work in statistical you wish was more widely known in skilled technical writer and a savvy accepts computing, visualization, graph- the scientific community? entrepreneur. JJ has helped me the COPSS ics, and data analysis; for developing The importance of tidying your data: substantially improve my ability Presidents’ and implementing an impressively Regardless of how you have recorded to make an impact on the world Award. comprehensive computational infra- your data, your analysis will go much through software. Photo by Eric structure for data analysis through more smoothly if you first “tidy” it Sampson/ASA R software; for making statistical up, making sure that each column is Why were you drawn to thinking and computing accessible to a variable (and hence each row is an statistical computing and software large audience; and for enhancing an observation). Getting your data into development? appreciation for the important role of this form up front will save you a I was drawn to computing at a young statistics among data scientists.” bunch of time if you’re using the tidy- age, particularly using computers to MORE ONLINE Huixia Judy Wang, COPSS secre- verse, R in general, or pretty much help organize data. When I was in Learn more about tary/treasurer, took a moment to ask any other data analysis tool. high school, I converted my mum’s Wickham at Wickham several questions, which he handwritten recipes into a database http://hadley.nz. answers here. Who are your most significant (which still exists today at http:// mentors? How did/do they impact recipes.had.co.nz!) and, throughout Which part of your job do you like your career? my career, I’ve [been] fascinated the most? Di Cook, professor of business ana- by how to turn raw data into rich, I love the freedom to work on prob- lytics, Monash University. Di was my informative displays that lead to bet- lems that I think are the most impor- PhD adviser, and I have the rare privi- ter decisions. Trying to help people tant. I love the mix of thinking, lege of knowing that there’s nowhere make better visualizations with less programming, and educating that in the world that would have been a pain and more joy has led me to push enables me to discover problems, better fit for me. As well as giving me my work further and further toward propose solutions, and then get them the freedom to work on topics that the raw data. into the hands of real people. I love were pretty weird for statistics, Di also working from home and having the taught me pretty much everything I Anything else you’d like to share about ability to spend focused hours on know about the art and science of data our profession? challenges that need deep attention. analysis. Di has done groundbreaking I have found data science to be a I love working with a talented team work in visualization, including tools deeply rewarding field. These days, with diverse skills and backgrounds. for interactive graphics and graphical I spend most of my time develop- Compared to my previous job in aca- inference. She is a wonderful mentor, ing tools for others to do data sci- demia, I love that I don’t have to write and many of her students have gone ence, but I still love getting my hands grants or attend faculty meetings . on to be very influential. Di is a role dirty with real data. I really enjoy the model for me, as she has a passion for combination of technical and human What advice would you give to young learning and has continued to master skills that are required to be an effec- people who are entering the profes- new skills throughout her career. tive data scientist. sion as PhD students and assistant JJ Allaire, CEO, RStudio. Soon professors at this time? after I joined RStudio, I decided that Finally, what are your hobbies/inter- Consciously work to improve your I needed to really learn C++ so that ests beyond statistics? programming and marketing skills. In I could write faster code, and JJ was Outside of statistics, I love to bake, your career, you are likely to receive a skilled and enthusiastic mentor. barbeque, and make cocktails. I also little (or no!) formal training in these One of the greatest compliments read a lot of science fiction and fan- areas, but they are force multipliers: I’ve ever received is JJ telling me tasy and practice yoga. n writing software allows many others that I’m a more-than-intermediate october 2019 amstat news 31 meetings

A Conversation with Anirban Basu The International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) has played a vital role in the dissemination of statistical methods in health policy and health services research throughout the past 20 years. In preparation for the next conference, which will take place in January 2020, we’re running a series of interviews and articles about previous Health Policy Statistics Section award winners.

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Policy was HPSS program chair for the Joint Statistical Statistics Meetings in 2008, and was a member of the planning or advisory committee for four other ICHPS James O’Malley Section is a professor of meetings. In addition, Anirban has chaired or co- biostatistics in chaired conferences of importance to HPSS, includ- the department t the 2018 International Conference on ing the MDM Annual Meeting in 2011, after co- of biomedical Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), held in chairing its Scientific Committee in 2009 and 2010. data science and Charleston, South Carolina, Anirban Basu He also founded the Annual Health Econometrics Dartmouth Institute wasA awarded the Mid-Career Excellence Award Workshop (AHEW) in 2009 and has chaired or for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at from the ASA Section on Health Policy Statistics otherwise overseen each subsequent edition. Dartmouth. (HPSS). After receiving the award, Anirban was Anirban is also prodigious in his receipt of interviewed about his life, including early influ- grants and generous in his commitment to grant Aasthaa Bansal ences and his opinions related to hot topics in sta- review and editorial work. He is loved by his stu- is an associate tistics. A summary of this interview by James dents and those he has mentored. And he has a professor at the Comparative Health O’Malley and Aasthaa Bansal follows. reputation for being a champion for junior inves- Outcomes, Policy, The Mid-Career Excellence Award is for those tigators, having helped mentor them through the and Economics who are within 15 years of their most significant arduous process of obtaining grants. At the time (CHOICE) Institute degree. Having earned his PhD in 2004, Anirban of submitting his nomination for the mid-career at the University of met the eligibility criteria for the 2018 award. excellence award, he had advised or mentored 22 Washington. Anirban transitioned from a PhD student students or postdoctoral fellows. in 2004 to full professor in 2014, subsequently receiving a named and endowed full professor- Timeline and Highlights ship in 2015. He is currently the Stergachis Family Anirban was born in a small town in the state of Endowed Professor at the University of Washington West Bengal in India. He became interested in sta- and director of the Comparative Health Outcomes, tistics during his master’s program in pharmaceuti- Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute. cal sciences and changed fields to pursue a master’s Anirban’s rapid rise was accompanied by a in biostatistics, during which he discussed statistics large number of awards, including student awards with P.K. Sen at The University of North Carolina. from the ASA at JSM 2003 and HPSS at ICHPS “Looking back, it was one of the best decisions I 2003, a Society for Medical Decision Making made in my career,” said Anirban. “I always had a (MDM) comparative effectiveness award in 2009, curiosity for economics, partly because my father three awards from the International Society for was an avid follower of financial news.” Combining Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research his love of statistics with his passion for population (2007, 2009, 2016), and ASA Fellow in 2016. He health, Anirban earned a PhD in public policy at has also received lectureships and other honors and The University of Chicago. published close to 100 publications in journals Anirban remained at The University of Chicago, across multiple disciplines. becoming a faculty member in 2004, until mov- Anirban’s service work is meritorious, especially ing to the University of Washington in Seattle in for one so young. He chaired the 2010 International 2011. In Anirban’s first year at Chicago, statisti- Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), cian Paul Rathouz encouraged him to apply for the

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HPSS student paper award for his work on estimating marginal and incremental effects on health Key Publications by/About Anirban Basu outcomes. “I was one of the student winners that year and immediately hooked to the section and its Basu, A., and P. Rathouz. 2005. Estimating members,” said Anirban. marginal and incremental effects on health A seminal paper he co-authored on the two-stage outcomes using flexible link and variance residual inclusion method seemingly popularized function models. Biostatistics 6, 93–109. the control function IV approach in the social science and statistical literature, sparking a lot of com- Basu, A., J. Heckman, S. Navarro-Lozano, and ment and investigation by statisticians. His work in S. Urzua. 2007. Use of instrumental variables causal inference was also influenced by a collabo- in the presence of heterogeneity and self- ration with James Heckman. Anirban said of this selection: An application to treatments experience, “Working with a Nobel Prize winner is of breast cancer patients. York Health always intimidating. I learned a ton from Jim and his Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) works, really the underpinnings of causal inference, Working Paper 07/07. (with Editorial) Health especially in the context of instrumental variables.” Anirban brings to statistics approaches and Economics 16, 1133–1157. reasoning developed in other fields. In his 2015 Terza, J., A. Basu, and P. Rathouz. 2008. Journal of Health Economics paper, Anirban took a well-known theoretical model of behavior known Two-stage residual inclusion estimation: as Roy’s model, which captures self-selection by Addressing endogeneity in health individual agents based on perceived costs and ben- econometric modeling. Journal of Health efits of alternatives, and applied it to study condi- Economics 27, 531–543. tions under which patients would agree to enter a randomized controlled trial (RCT) when both Basu, A. 2015. Welfare implications of the comparators are freely available to them under learning through solicitation versus health insurance. diversification in health care. NBER Working Asked about data science, Anirban had an inter- paper # 20367. Journal of Health Economics esting perspective. “I think the evolution of the field 42, 165–173. of data science, beyond statistics, is mostly driven by the type of data we see these days, which spurs inno- O’Malley, A.J., and A. Bansal. 2018. A vation in statistical methods,” he said. “In econom- conversation including 39 questions with ics, causal inference is the king, as many economic Anirban Basu. Health Services and Outcomes problems aim to forecast effects of policies and pric- Research Methodology 18(4), 287–297. es on behavior. So, data sciences, more specifically machine learning methods that focus on prediction and classification, do not immediately fit the requirements within the field. Health is one area where both pure factual prediction problems and problems of counterfactual predictions exist.” Anirban continued, “There has been a lot of uptake of data science are clinical researchers who are so tied to RCTs that for the first set of problems. But unlike traditional they refuse to believe that randomization can exist economics, there is limited scope for large-scale outside of controlled environments.” manipulation of data production to apply machine When asked about his future plans, Anirban said learning for counterfactual predictions. But that has he will “continue to develop new methods and also not deterred some researchers from applying these figure out appropriate application of instrumental methods erroneously to causal inference problems, variable methods for observational data research.” without a clear identification rationale. More recent- He added, “Another big thrust of my work is to ly, interesting methods that combine deep learning understand heterogeneity in effects and how behav- algorithms with instrumental variable approches are ior (patient, provider, policymaker) changes when beginning to show promise. But then again, there facing evidence about heterogeneity.” n

october 2019 amstat news 33 education Statistics Workshops for Math and Science Teachers Held in Denver Katherine Halvorsen, MWM Program Chair, and Rebecca Nichols, ASA Director of Education

STATISTICAL OUTREACH Members of the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee are encouraging chapters and members to connect with local AP Statistics teachers and middle- and high-school mathematics and science teachers. There is information about K–12 statistics education programs and resources available at www.amstat.org/education and guidance on and resources for doing outreach to local schools at http://bit.ly/2lRxzZS. Questions should be directed Meeting Within a Meeting participants look over patterns in the data. to Rebecca Nichols, ASA director of education, at Photo by Eric Sampson/ASA [email protected] or (703) 684-1221, Ext. 1877. The MWM 2019 program work and allow teachers to com- (www.amstat.org/ASA/Education/ ment about the program to the MWM/home.aspx) was designed to organizers. The workshop sessions he American Statistical enhance educators’ understanding were preceded by an overview of Association sponsored a of statistics and provide them with the Guidelines for Assessment and two-day Meeting Within a hands-on activities they can use in Instruction in Statistics Education TMeeting (MWM) statistics work- their own classrooms to strengthen (GAISE) Report (http://bit. shop for middle- and high-school the teaching of statistics in their ly/2mkK940) and other standards mathematics and science teachers schools. A secondary goal was to relevant to the audience. July 30–31 at the annual 2019 encourage cooperation between Middle-school teachers attend- Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in mathematics and science teachers ed the workshop sessions on both Denver, Colorado. in the teaching of statistics and Tuesday and Wednesday and This year, there were 28 par- make connections between teach- participated in discussions about ticipants, including middle- and ers and local statisticians. formulating statistical questions MORE ONLINE Learn more high-school teachers, teacher edu- “One of the primary mis- and collecting data, comparative about MWM at cators, students, and statisticians sions of the American Statistical inferences about two populations, www.amstat.org/ interested in professional devel- Association is to work for the investigating patterns of associa- ASA/Education/MWM/ opment and teaching statistics at improvement of statistical edu- tion in bivariate quantitative data, home.aspx. the middle- and high-school lev- cation at all levels,” said Ron measures of center and variability, els. Workshop participants came Wasserstein, the ASA’s executive investigating sampling variability, from nine states and the District director. “We are pleased to reach and exploring the mathematical of Columbia. out to the K–12 mathematics and practices through a statistical lens. The MWM workshops empha- science community through the The sessions in the high-school size the growth of statistical literacy MWM workshop and follow-up program on Tuesday included and thinking as teachers explore activities,” he added. “MWM will discussions about statistical problems that require them to for- not only enhance understanding questions and study design; mulate questions; collect, organize, and teaching of statistics concepts recognizing data types and the analyze, and draw conclusions in the classroom, but also provide appropriate methods for display- from data; and apply basic con- participants with a network of stat- ing, summarizing, and compar- cepts of probability. A follow-up isticians and educators to assist in ing them; exploring and using program incorporating webinars developing the quantitative literacy data from grayscale images to and email is planned to provide of their students.” develop informal classification further training and help keep the Each workshop day consisted models; and using randomiza- teachers who attended MWM of three sessions and a closing tion tests to make inferences and connected to the ASA. period used to reflect on the day’s justify conclusions.

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High-school teachers were given the option to attend the 2019 Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) Workshop second day of the middle-school workshop on Wednesday, which focused on topics relevant to Attracts a Dozen Teachers both middle- and high-school Rebecca Nichols, ASA Director of Education, and Roxy Peck, BAPS Program Chair teachers or to attend statistics education sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings. he American Statistical All teachers who attended were Association/National given a certificate of participation Council of Teachers of by the ASA. Also, teachers who TMathematics Joint Committee registered could receive one semes- on Curriculum in Statistics and ter graduate credit hour through Probability sponsored a Beyond Adams State University. The ASA AP Statistics (BAPS) workshop BEYOND AP STATISTICS will provide follow-up activities at the annual Joint Statistical throughout the 2019–2020 school Meetings in Denver Wednesday, year, including webinars (http://bit. July 31, 2019. The BAPS work- ATTENTIONFONT: Avenir NextCHAPTERS ly/2mlBGO9). shop (www.amstat.org/education/ Katherine Halvorsen of Smith baps) is offered for experienced Chapters are encouraged College planned the MWM pro- AP statistics teachers. to consider sponsoring gram, while ASA Director of This year, 12 teachers from one or more teachers Education Rebecca Nichols man- Colorado and other parts of the from their area to attend aged the website, registration and United States came to Denver the MWM and BAPS evaluation procedures, and logis- for a full-day BAPS workshop BLUE: ORANGE: workshops.PRINT RegistrationPRINT tics of setting up and advertising designed to strengthen and CMYK=85, 50, 0, 0 CMYK=0, 74, 100, 0 willONLINE begin in MarchONLINE 2020 the conference. Presenters included expand teachers’ statistics back- Ads/RGB=27, 117, 187 Ads/RGB=255, 102, 0 atHTML=#1B75BB www.amstat.org/HTML=#FF6600 ASA K–12 Statistical Ambassador grounds by introducing them to Chris Franklin, ASA/NCTM Joint topics just beyond the content of education/baps and www. Committee Past Chair Kaycie the typical AP Statistics course. amstat.org/education/ Maddox (Northeast Georgia The brainchild of former ASA/ mwm. Questions should RESA), Anna-Marie Fergusson NCTM Joint Committee Chair be directed to Rebecca (University of Auckland, New Jim Matis, BAPS has been offered Nichols, ASA director of Zealand), National Council at JSM for nearly two decades. education, at rebecca@ of Supervisors of Mathematics The workshop, organized amstat.org or (703) 684- Past President Connie Schrock by Roxy Peck of Cal Poly this 1221, Ext. 1877. (Emporia State University), year, was divided into four and Halvorsen. Additionally, sessions led by the following Wasserstein, Jamie Perrett (ASA/ noted statisticians: NCTM Joint Committee Chair), Participants were given a pass and Matt Pocernich from the • Jim Cochran, University of to attend the exhibit hall and Colorado-Wyoming ASA Chapter Alabama sessions at the Joint Statistical welcomed the attendees. Classification and Regression Meetings and a certificate of Planning has begun for Trees participation from the American MWM 2020, which will be Statistical Association certifying held in conjunction with JSM • Jessica Utts, University of professional development hours. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. California, Irvine An optional 0.5 graduate credit MWM program committee Multiple Regression hours was also available through members are encouraging chap- • Beth Chance, Cal Poly, San Adams State University. Some ters to consider sponsoring one Luis Obispo BAPS participants opted to also or more teachers from their Bootstrapping and attend the high-school sessions area to attend the workshops. Simulating Regression Lines of the Meeting Within a Meeting Registration will begin in March (MWM) Statistics Workshop 2020 at www.amstat.org/ASA/ • Allan Rossman, Cal Poly, for Math and Science Teachers San Luis Obispo Education/MWM/home.aspx. n (www.amstat.org/education/mwm) Introduction to Bayesian the previous day. n Statistics

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COPSS Awards collection and interpreta- Nomination packages can tion of data. The award be emailed to Rick Peterson at Each year, the Committee of exists to recognize the impor- [email protected] or mailed to The Presidents of Statistical Societies tance of statistical meth- Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring (COPSS) recognizes outstanding ods for scientific investiga- Award Committee, c/o The members of our profession dur- tions. Nominations must American Statistical Association, ing the Joint Statistical Meetings. be sent by December 15, 732 N. Washington St., Nominations are an important 2019—preferably by email Alexandria, VA 22314-1943. part of the process, and every- in PDF format—to Sharon- If you have questions about one can contribute. We recog- Lise Normand, chair of the award, contact Peterson nize excellence in our mentors, the COPSS Fisher Lecture or Bill Mockovak, chair of colleagues, and friends, and it and Award Committee at the award committee, at is important to single out those [email protected]. [email protected]. n who have made exceptional contributions to the profession. The Elizabeth L. Scott Waksberg Award The following three COPSS Award and Lectureship is awards will be presented dur- The journal Survey Methodology presented biennially (even- has established an annual invited ing JSM 2020, to be held in numbered years) to an indi- Philadelphia, August 1–6: paper series in honor of the late vidual—male or female— Joe Waksberg to recognize his who has helped foster The Presidents’ Award is outstanding contributions to opportunities in statistics presented annually to a young survey methodology. Each year, for women. The 2020 award member of one of the partici- a prominent survey statistician winner will deliver the first pating COPSS societies in is chosen to write a paper that E. L. Scott Lecture at JSM in recognition of outstanding reviews the development and Philadelphia. Nominations contributions to the statis- current state of an important topic must be sent by December tics profession. It is typically in the field of survey methodology. 15, 2019—preferably by granted to an individual who The paper reflects the mixture of email in PDF format—to either i) has not yet reached theory and practice that character- Elizaveta Levina, chair of his or her 41st birthday dur- ized Joe Waksberg’s work. the COPSS Scott Lecture ing the calendar year of the The recipient of the Waksberg and Award Committee, at award or ii) will be under Award will receive an honorari- [email protected]. age 46 throughout the award um and give the 2021 Waksberg calendar year and will have Visit https://community.amstat. Invited Address at the Statistics received a terminal statistical- org/copss/home for details about Canada Symposium, expect- ly related degree no more than these awards. n ed to be held in the autumn 12 years prior to that year. of 2021. The paper will be Nominations must be sent by Jeanne E. Griffith published in a future issue of December 15, 2019—prefer- Mentoring Award Survey Methodology (targeted for ably by email in PDF for- Nominations for the 2020 December 2021). mat—to Susan Halabi, chair Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring The author of the 2021 of the COPSS Presidents’ Award can be submitted begin- Waksberg paper will be selected Award Committee, at susan. ning January 2, 2020. by a four-person committee [email protected]. The award honors Jeanne E. appointed by Survey Methodology Griffith, who died in 2001 after and the ASA. The Fisher Award and working for more than 25 years Nominations of individuals Lectureship, awarded annu- in the federal statistical system. to be considered as authors or ally, was established in 1963 It acknowledges supervisors, suggestions for topics should be by COPSS to honor the out- technical directors, team coor- sent before February 28, 2020, to standing contributions of dinators, or other members the committee chair, Bob Fay, at the late Sir Ronald Aylmer n of government statistical staff [email protected]. Fisher and those of a current who have made unique efforts statistician for aspects of sta- to mentor younger staff. The tistics and probability that award includes a plaque and closely relate to the scientific $1,000 honorarium.

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The Ellis R. Ott Govern- Iowa State Teams Finish in Top 10 at ing Board recently announced scholarships for the International Data Mining Competition 2019–2020 academic year have been awarded to Patricia Aubel and Kayla Reiman. owa State University graduate students brought home the top prize in an international data mining competition. Patricia Aubel will be a The team consisted of Qihao Zhang (statistics), Qinglong Tian (statistics), ShaodongI Wang (industrial and manufacturing systems engineering), Zerui Zhang (industrial and manufacturing systems engineering), Xingche Guo (statistics), Yifan Zhu (statistics), Haoyan Hu (statistics), Gang Han (statistics), Haihan Yu (statistics), Lijin Zhang (statistics), Yueying Wang (statistics), and Wenting Zhao (statistics). A second team of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering and statistics students took eighth place. That team consisted of Oscar Aguilar (statistics), Hanisha Vemireddy (industrial and manufacturing systems engineering), Samira Karimzadeh (industrial and manufacturing systems engineering), Reyhaneh Bijari Aubel (industrial and manufacturing systems engineering), Kanak Choudhury (statistics), and Souradeep Chattopadhyay (statistics). statistics master’s student at the The winning teams were invited to Berlin, Germany, for a celebration ceremony University of California, Davis, on July 3, and the first-place team took home 2,000 euros in prize money. starting in the fall of 2019. She Read more about these students at the Iowa State University website at www. earned a bachelor’s in applied news.iastate.edu/news/2019/07/08/data-mining. For more information about the math from San Jose State Uni- versity and a master’s in global Data Mining Cup Competition, visit www.data-mining-cup.com/reviews/dmc-2019. health from the University of California, San Francisco. Aubel uses statistical and epidemio- logical approaches to understand then in the research sector. In on to leadership positions in the effect of policy on public 2016, she became a statisti- health. Previously, she worked at the discipline. Since 1998, this cal programmer at MDRC, program—under the auspices of a Stanford social psychology lab an organization that evaluates the ASQ Statistics Division— and was a fellow in the cancer programs serving low-income and genomics lab at Cold Spring people. There, she researched has awarded 58 scholarships, Harbor Laboratory. She is also financial aid interventions, amounting to $322,500, to passionate about teaching statis- created data-tracking and foster Ott’s statistical legacy. For tics and has worked as a com- benchmarking tools for col- information about the scholar- munity college math instructor. lege staff, and co-authored a ship, visit the statistics division Aubel decided to pursue a career methodological paper on the of the American Society for in applying quantitative methods generalizability of regression Quality at http://asq.org/statistics/ to population health after study- discontinuity designs. She is about/ott. n ing violence prevention as an now studying applications of epidemiology intern at the Har- data analytics to public policy vard School of Public Health. at Carnegie Mellon University. James Robins, Mitchell Kayla Reiman has been L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Both Aubel and Reiman will Professor of Epidemiology at receive $7,500 to support their Harvard, has received the in- academic pursuits. augural Distinguished Lecture- The Ellis R. Ott Scholarship ship Award from the Center is awarded each year to promis- for Causal Inference. Robins ing students of applied statistics accepted the award at the and quality management. The center’s annual Causal Infer- scholarship program is named ence Summer Institute, which was hosted by the Rutgers Reiman after Ellis Ott, a highly regarded statistical pioneer who founded School of Public Health in working in research and quality the much-emulated applied and New Brunswick, New Jersey. control since graduating from mathematical statistics program Robins’ research has fo- Wesleyan University in 2014, at Rutgers University and whose cused on the development of first at a small nonprofit and colleagues and students went analytic methods appropriate october 2019 amstat news 37 people news

for drawing causal inferences lecture to the work of agen- from complex observational and cies engaged in the produc- randomized studies with time- tion of official statistics. varying exposures or treatments. The lecture will be held The new methods are to a large October 18 at the National extent based on the estimation Academy of Sciences build- of the parameters of a new class ing, 2101 Constitution Ave., of causal models—the struc- NW. The timing will align with tural nested models—using a events being held at the acad- Stark new class of estimators—the G emy for Data Linkage Day. estimators. The usual approach The Links Lecture is spon- federally mandated duties, which include the following: to the estimation of the effect sored by the American Sta- of a time-varying treatment or tistical Association to bring • Developing guidance to exposure on time to disease is visibility to issues surrounding meet HAVA requirements to model the hazard incidence the advancement of official • Adopting voluntary voting of failure at time t as a func- statistics, such as the following: tion of past treatment history system guidelines using a time-dependent Cox • The statistical use of admin- • Serving as a national clear- proportional hazards model. n istrative records and alterna- inghouse of information tive data sources about election administration • Accrediting testing labora- • Record linkage tories and certifying voting systems • Statistical methods for creating blended estimates • Auditing the use of HAVA funds • Privacy, confidentiality, Under HAVA, the house researcher access, and repro- minority leader can select one Meyer ducibility of results professional from the field of The lecture series also cel- science and technology to serve Bruce Meyer, McCormick ebrates Constance Citro, Robert on the EAC Board of Advisors. Foundation Professor at The Groves, and Fritz Scheuren, A professor of statistics and University of Chicago Harris who have been critical links associate dean of mathemati- School of Public Policy, has in envisioning the future of cal and physical sciences at UC been honored with the 2019 official statistics. For more Berkeley, Stark is considered the Links Lecture Award for adding information about the Links originator of “risk-limiting” au- important links in the progress Lecture Award, see www.amstat. dits and has worked with Cali- of official statistics through org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards fornia and Colorado secretaries research and advisory activities. Links-Lecture-Award.aspx. n of state, helping to conduct Meyer has worked extensively risk-limiting audits in nearly to explore ways to improve House Minority Leader Nancy 20 counties. He testified about official statistics by linking Pelosi appointed Philip election integrity before the data from multiple survey and Stark, former chair of the California legislature and at trial administrative sources. He also University of California, in a contested election. He also served on the Commission for Berkeley, Statistics Department, sits on the development team Evidence-Based Policymaking. to serve on the United States for the Travis County, Texas, Meyer’s lecture is titled, Election Assistance Commis- STAR-Vote system, which com- “Linking Data to Improve sion (EAC) Board of Advisors. bines auditability with end-to- Income Statistics.” Established by the Help end cryptographic verifiability. Mary Bohman, deputy direc- America Vote Act of 2002 Read more about the EAC tor at the Bureau of Economic (HAVA), the EAC Board and Stark’s appointment at Analysis, will serve in the pro- of Advisors is comprised of www.amstat.org/asa/News/ gram as the “connector,” 37 individuals who assist Former-UC-Berkeley-Stats-Chair- relating the points in Meyer’s the EAC in carrying out its Appointed-to-EAC-Board.aspx. n

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Sharon Boivin Receives 2019 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award Bill Mockovak, 2019 Jeanne E. Griffith Award Selection Committee Chair

nominators Tiffany Julian and Shelly Martinez point out, they Award Cosponsors were moved by the stories of American Educational Research how Boivin helped individuals Association overcome doubts and fears while generously sharing her time and American Institutes for Research expertise and serving as a sound- Council of Professional Associations on ing board in professional and Federal Statistics (COPAFS) personal situations. Boivin Acknowledged within Government Statistics Section NCES for her contributions to Interagency Council on Statistical Policy mentoring, Sharon applied this he Jeanne E. Griffith same ethic to assignments outside Social Statistics Section Award Selection NCES. As one nominator noted, Research Triangle Institute Committee hosted an Sharon brought deep expertise to Tawards ceremony and reception the team, but also contributed Washington Statistical Society July 10 to honor Sharon Boivin work ethic, positivity, and opti- with the 2019 Jeanne E. Griffith mism that was infectious. Award, which recognizes indi- Several of the people Boivin 2019 Award Committee Members viduals working in federal, state, mentored mentioned how she Bill Mockovak, Bureau of Labor Statistics and local government agencies was willing to share her skills, (Chair) for their efforts to mentor junior pushed them to learn new skills statistical staff. and take on new opportunities, Jeffrey Gonzalez, Bureau of Labor Statistics Family, friends, and col- and encouraged them to expand Anna Nevius, Retired leagues joined friends of Jeanne their professional networks. Griffith, the award committee, Others commented that she Joy Sharp, US Energy Information the Interagency Council on actively sought their feedback, Administration Statistical Policy (ICSP), and encouraged them to interact Cynthia Ogden, US Centers for Disease Boivin at the ceremony, mark- and meet with other staff, and Control and Prevention ing the 17th annual presenta- urged them to give presentations tion of the award and the 11th at meetings or professional con- Diane Willimack, US Census Bureau year the Government Statistics ferences. Boivin also served as a Section (GSS) has managed the sounding board and confidante award process. who was willing to help her Boivin is a mathematical stat- staff think through career goals federal government to create a istician at the National Center for and options while providing federal data strategy. In the pro- Education Statistics (NCES), but thoughtful and honest feedback. cess, she emphasized professional she has had an impact across the A nominator also pointed out development, honest communi- federal government and statisti- how Boivin has a heart for guid- cation between team leadership cal system by working as a senior ing and creating dedicated civil and fellows, and effective per- member of the Commission on servants. This passion was on formance. She was also always Evidence-Based Policymaking display when Boivin successfully willing to share her time and and on assignment to help cre- recruited almost 40 part-time knowledge, even within such a ate a federal data strategy. As her team members from across the large group. n

october 2019 amstat news 39 section • chapter • committee news Detroit, Ann Arbor Chapters Celebrate Michigan Statistics Poster Awards Karry Roberts, ASA Detroit Chapter Secretary chapternews

Macomb Academy of Arts & Sciences, Armada, Michigan. From left: Sabrina Grove, Malissa Hiller, Rob Kushler, Tessa Goldun, Violet Fiddes, Annaliese Germundson, David Corliss, Anastasia Misson, Karry Roberts, and Kaitlyn Goretski

Sarah Egan Warren gives a presentation about social media to North Carolina Chapter members.

North Carolina Uriah Lawton Elementary, Ann Arbor, Michigan. From left: Rob Kushler, June The North Carolina Chapter Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Tewari, Paavani Tewari, Karry Roberts, and Anamaria Kazanis held a mini-workshop, titled “LinkedIn and Your Professional he Detroit and Ann Arbor chapters recognized students and Presence on Social Media,” at their teachers at two schools to celebrate their Michigan SAMSI on May 13. Sarah Egan Statistics Poster Competition awards. Warren, head of technical com- TRob Kushler, David Corliss, and Karry Roberts of the Detroit munication, and April Wilson, Chapter held a recognition event in Violet Fiddes’ classroom at head of career services, at North Macomb Academy of Arts & Sciences in Armada, Michigan. Fiddes, Carolina State University’s a mathematics and computer science teacher, encourages her students Institute for Advanced to enter the competition with projects that are applications of class- Analytics, gave a presentation room learning. This year, her students won all three places in the about having a professional pres- Grades 7–9 category: ence on social media. Students • First Place: Annaliese Germundson and Tessa Goldun, “Which and young professionals learned Gender Feels Safer When Walking Alone?” about using their professional presence to create options and • Second Place: Malissa Hiller and Sabrina Grove, “Do High- define their career paths. School Students Spend Their Free Time Wisely?” Specifically, Warren and • Third Place: Anastasia Misson and Kaitlyn Goretski, Wilson discussed how recruit- “Favorite Dogs” ers consider your online presence and what they look for Kushler and Roberts, along with ASA Council of Chapters in your profile. They also pro- Representative to the Board of Directors Anamaria Kazanis, also held vided resources for choosing a an awards ceremony in June (Jinx) Cooke’s classroom at Uriah Lawton profile picture and creating an Elementary in Ann Arbor, Michigan. effective LinkedIn summary. Fourth-grader Paavani Tewari won awards for the second year in a row. Attendees were also given advice She won first place in both the Michigan Statistical Poster Competition about using LinkedIn to help and the ASA Data Visualization Poster Competition in the Grades 4–6 with networking. n category with her poster, “How Does My Body Temperature Vary?” Paavani presented her extracurricular project, and Cooke emphasized how rewarding external activities can be. n

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NJ Chapter Holds 40th Spring Symposium sectionnews Biometrics The ASA Biometrics Section invites applications for funding to support projects developing innovative outreach projects focused on enhancing awareness of biostatistics among quantita- tively talented US students. The From left: Dirk Moore (Symposium Committee Member), Steve Ascher (NJ section is particularly interested Chapter Secretary), CV Damaraju (NJ Chapter Treasurer), Jing Gong (NJ Chapter in projects that will encourage President), Gary Rosner, Peter Mesenbrink, Hui Quan, James Travis, Satrajit students to pursue advanced Roychoudhury, and Shiling Ruan (NJ Chapter Vice President) training in biostatistics. The section anticipates fund- he New Jersey Chapter held its 40th Spring Symposium at ing one project this year, with Rutgers RWJ Medical School June 28. The theme of the sym- total funding of up to $3,000. posium was Clinical Trials for Rare Diseases and Pediatric The project timeline would be TPopulations: Challenges in Design and Analysis. from 1.5–2 years. All investiga- Approximately 70 people attended the following presentations: tors are encouraged to apply. • Gary Rosner of The Johns Hopkins University, “Meta-Analysis of Award recipients must be an Rare Adverse Events in Randomized Clinical Trials: Bayesian and ASA member and Biometrics Frequentist Methods” Section member before project initiation. • Hui Quan of Sanofi, “A Case Study of Phase II/III Seamless A three-page application is Adaptive Design in a Rare Disease Area” due by November 15 and should be in the following format: • Cong Chen of Merck, “Statistical Considerations on Early-to-Late Transition of Oncology Projects Title Objectives and Specific • Peter Messenbrink of Novartis, “Innovation in Pediatric Trial Aims Design in Rare Autoimmune Diseases Background, Significance, • Satrajit Roychoudhury of Pfizer Inc., “Incorporating Adult and/or Rationale Clinical Data into Pediatric Clinical Trials: A Robust Bayesian Design and Methods Approach Deliverables/Products • James Travis of FDA, “Pediatric Drug Development: A Budget Regulatory Perspective The following types of expenditures are allowed: sup- The following three posters were also on display: plies, domestic travel (when • Ken Goldberg of Johnson & Johnson, “Robust Statistical necessary to carry out the proj- Methods for Defining Cut Points Based on Tolerance Intervals” ect), professional expertise (e.g., instructional designer or • Dirk Moore of Rutgers, “Using Competing Risks Survival Data from the SEER-Medicare Database to Power a Prostate Cancer webmaster), and cost of com- Randomized Clinical Trial” puter time. The following types of expenditures are not allowed: • Steve Ascher, “ASA NJ Chapter Spring Symposium— secretarial/administrative per- 40th Anniversary: A Brief History” sonnel, tuition, foreign travel, and honoraria and travel expens- During lunch, NJ Chapter Secretary Steve Ascher gave a brief pre- es for visiting lecturers to the sentation on the history of the Spring Symposium, where a celebratory investigator’s home institution. cake was cut to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the event. n A project period with a start date no earlier than January 1,

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2020, and an end date no later travelapp_2020.pdf. Previous the detailed handout and minutes than December 31, 2021, also SRMS student travel award win- from the business meeting will should be specified. ners and previous SRMS student be posted to the section’s website Applications should be sub- paper competition winners are not at https://community.amstat.org/ mitted electronically to Strategic eligible for this award. statisticaleducationsection/home. Initiatives Subcommittee Chair The deadline for applications is This was the second year of a Tanya Garcia at tpgarcia@stat. December 16. Questions should joint education table at JSM with tamu.edu. All investigators will be sent to Darcy Steeg Morris the Section on Teaching Statistics be expected to submit a brief at [email protected]. in the Health Sciences, History of report at the conclusion of the Statistics Special Interest Group, project to Garcia. Questions JSM 2020 Topic-Contributed and Business Analytics/Statistics Session Proposals should be addressed either to Education Special Interest Group. Garcia or to the subcommit- JSM 2019 may just be behind Carol Blumberg and Rebecca tee co-chair, Milan Bimali, us, but it is time to organize your Nichols organized the four-table at [email protected]. n potential JSM 2020 topic-contrib- booth, a one-stop shop for all uted session; proposals can be sub- things education and history. Physical and Engineering mitted online between November Congratulations to the follow- Sciences 12 and December 10. ing education award honorees: Topic-contributed sessions 2018 Ron Wasserstein Award The newly elected SPES officers include papers (five speakers with for Best Contributed Paper: are as follows: 20 minutes each, with at least three Jennifer Green of Montana State • Jennifer Kensler, Chair-elect presenters and no more than two University, “STEM Storytellers, • Claire McKay Bowen, JSM discussants), panels (3–6 panel- Improving Graduate Students’ Program Chair-elect ists providing commentary about Oral Communication Skills” • Michael Crotty, Secretary/ a topic), and posters (10–15 par- 2018 Ron Wasserstein Treasurer n ticipants with posters addressing a Award for Best Contributed common topic). Paper Honorable Mention: Survey Research Methods A topic-contributed session Sherry Hix of the University of The Survey Research Methods proposal includes a session title, North Georgia, “Extending the Section (SRMS) offers student general description of the session, Applications of Simulation-Based travel awards for students in any list of participants, and tentative Approaches in the Teaching of terminal degree program (bach- talk titles. Elementary Statistics” elor’s, master’s, or doctoral) in If you are interested in organiz- 2019 Section on Statistics and survey methodology or survey ing a topic-contributed session, Data Science Education Speed research disciplines. select a session topic and solicit Session Award: Support is offered for student potential speakers. Once you have Honorable Mention: Ginger attendance at the Joint Statistical a sufficient number of committed Holmes Rowell of Middle Meetings (JSM), to be held in speakers, you can submit your pro- Tennessee State University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from posal at ww2.amstat.org/meetings/ “Digital Metaphors: A Tool August 1–6, 2020. Preference jsm/2020/submissions.cfm. n to Provide Insights into is given to students presenting Introductory Statistics Students’ a paper or poster at the confer- Statistics and Data Motivation and Success” ence. In addition to a short essay Science Education Honorable Mention: Allison and college transcripts, applica- It was another stellar JSM under Theobold of Montana State tions must include a letter of Section Program Chair Stacey University, “Computational recommendation by a current Hancock and Roundtable/ Workshops to Facilitate SRMS member. Birds-of-a-Feather Chair Amelia Implementation of Statistics in Typically, awards of up to McNamara. Section highlights Scientific Research” $825 are given, which includes included sponsoring a workshop Winner: Gwendolyn Marie $800 for JSM expenses and $25 for for graduate students preparing to Eadie of the University of student membership in the ASA teach, four invited panels/sessions, Washington, “Active-Learning (student membership in SRMS is four topic-contributed panels/ for Bayesian Inference: An free). Award recipients are expect- sessions, two contributed paper Introductory Exercise Using ed to attend JSM sessions and the sessions, one contributed poster M&M’s Candy” SRMS business meeting/mixer to session, one speed poster session, 2019 Mu Sigma Rho National be recognized by the section. two roundtables, and 10 birds-of- Statistics Honor Society William Application forms are avail- a-feather discussions. D. 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California at Berkeley ing statistics and data science. mastering the Tidyverse, Bayesian 2019 Section Service Award: Presenters included Beth Chance statistics, and K–12 statistics edu- Stacey Hancock, Montana of Cal Poly, Allan Rossman of Cal cation. More information is forth- University Poly, Nick Horton of Amherst, coming in the ASA Community. ASA Fellows: Ann Cannon, Ulrike Genschel of Iowa State, The Data Science Education Keith Crank, Kate Crespi, and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel of Working Group—comprised of Davy Paindaveine, and Mike the University of Edinburgh/ faculty and industry professionals Shaughnessy Duke. We are planning contin- from statistics, computer science, Section Fellows: Kathy Fubo ued communication and support and data science (Nick Horton, and Amy Hogan for this group with Zoom calls Rob Gould, Stacy Hancock, Ben Section Fellows throughout the academic year. Baumer, Lance Waller, Cassandra The section recently created the New Officers Pattanayak, Bill Notz, Erin Fellowship Program for High- Our new officers are Jo Hardin Blankenship, Dennis Sun, John School and Two-Year College of Pomona, chair-elect 2020; DeNero, Kathryn Kozak, Min Teachers. It is designed for indi- Maria Tackett of Duke, com- Chi, Shirley Yap, Beth Chance, viduals who want to make an munications officer 2020–2022; and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel) impact beyond their classroom Brianna Heggeseth of Macalester, is continuing its efforts and will setting. As part of the program, Council of Sections representa- be disseminating milestones and the selection committee selects tive 2020–2022; Lisa Kay of products via the ASA Community. at most one high-school teacher Eastern Kentucky University, Save the date for the Electronic and one two-year college teacher. executive committee at-large Conference on Teaching of Each one-year fellowship begins 2020–2022; and Ellen Breazel of Statistics (eCOTS), which will in August and aims to provide Clemson, executive committee take place May 18–22, 2020 opportunities for the fellows at-large 2020–2022. (www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ to expand their influence and Officers whose terms are ecots20). involvement in statistics educa- ending December 31 are Beth Call for Papers tion innovation. Chance, past chair; Stacey The Journal of Statistics Education Mentoring Program Hancock, 2019 program chair; has announced a call for papers The mentoring program, found- Kay Endriss, communications for a special fall 2020 issue look- ed in 2016, connects early-career officer; Garrett Grolemund, ing backward and forward 10 statistics educators with experi- executive committee; Rebecca years after the publication of enced mentors to provide career Nugent, executive committee; Nolan and Temple Lang’s The advice help participants achieve and Erin Blankenship, Council American Statistician paper, their professional goals. A fourth of Sections representative. “Computing in the Statistics set of 20 pairings for 2019–2020 Policy and Guidelines Curriculum.” Details can be was announced prior to JSM. We All section members are invited found at https://nhorton.people. still have a few unmatched men- to review the ASA Activities amherst.edu/JSEFlier2.pdf. tors. Applications for 2020–2021 Conduct Policy at www.amstat. Become a Section Member will open in the spring. org/ASA/Meetings/Meeting- Like what you see, but you aren’t Website Conduct-Policy.aspx and Ethical a section member? You can eas- Brigitte Baldi has been working Guidelines for Statistical Practice ily add a section to your mem- to improve our section website at www.amstat.org/ASA/Your- bership outside of your regular (http://community.amstat.org/ Career/Ethical-Guidelines-for- ASA membership renewal cycle. statisticaleducationsection/home), Statistical-Practice.aspx. We will (You would pay full annual sec- which has a variety of useful be linking to these from the section dues for the abbreviated resources and links, including tion website, as well. time until your next renewal.) a newly added initiatives page. Continuing Education Go to the ASA website and log Suggestions for additions or The section is starting a new in using your ASA user name and improvements can be sent to her continuing education series, password. In the Members Only at [email protected]. Infusing Data Science Education area under your name, there is and Applications into Statistics a button labeled “Add items to Graduate Student Workshop your membership.” This is where The NSF and IMS New Learning Communities (IDEAS). IDEAS will feature five sessions to section and chapter member- Researchers Group sponsored a ships can be added. The Section one-day workshop for 35 graduate run between October and April or July 2020 on topics such as on Statistics and Data Science students with an interest in teach- Education welcomes you! n

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Personnel advertising is accepted with the understanding that the adver- tiser does not discriminate among applicants on the basis of race, sex, religion, age, Michigan color, national origin, handicap, or sexual orientation. n The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics is seeking Also, look for job ads on the ASA website at https://jobs.amstat.org/jobseekers. applicants for two open rank and one tenure-track faculty positions for Fall 2020. Candidates must have a strong research background with a doctoral degree in biostatistics, statistics, mathematics, the computational sciences or a related field. For Florida Louisiana further details, visit: https://sph.umich.edu/ biostat/faculty-research/job_postings.html. n The Health Informatics Institute at n Louisiana State University located Applications from women and minorities the University of South Florida invites in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, seeks can- are encouraged. EOE/AA. applications for an open-rank research didates for Department Head of the faculty position in biostatistics. The Department of Experimental Statistics Institute is NIH-funded as a statistics (EXST). The successful candidate will and data coordinating center for several be a leader with a shared vision to New York large clinical research networks (www. guide, support, and inspire a multi- n hii.usf.edu). Preferred areas of interdisciplinary faculty and staff in their Syracuse University invites applica- est include longitudinal data analysis, tripartite mission of scholarly teaching, tions for Professor of Business Analytics clinical trials, and big data analytics. research, and outreach. For more infor- at Whitman School of Management University benefits package, EOE. mation visit the LSU Career site: https:// starting January 2020. This recruitment Apply to position 22377 or 22378 at lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/ is part of an ambitious Invest Syracuse [email protected]. LSU---Baton-Rouge/Department-Head- Cluster Hire Initiative in the broad area Chair---Tenured_R00036318. EOE. of big data and data analytics. Qualified Iowa candidates must have earned PhD in data n sciences and have a distinguished record Cornell College is searching for a of publications and extramural funding. tenure-track assistant professor of statis- Massachusetts Apply online at www.sujobopps.com/post- tics in the Department of Mathematics ings/78613. EOE. and Statistics, starting 2020–2021. This n The Department of Mathematical individual will contribute to the expan- Sciences at Bentley University, located sion of statistics and data science cours- in Waltham, Massachusetts, invites es, as well as creating majors in statistics applications for tenure track positions North Carolina beginning fall 2020. We seek candi- and data science. Normal course load is n The Department of Statistics at NC six courses per year. Interest in engag- dates to add to our strengths in applied statistics, applied mathematics, data State University is hiring tenure-track ing students in research, competitions, faculty (all ranks). Start date is August and/or internships, a plus. Apply science and machine learning. The rank and salary will be commensurate with 2020. Applicants in any area of statis- online: https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/ tics or biostatistics will be considered. jobs/14137. EOE. experience. To learn more and to apply, go to https://bentley.wd1.myworkdayjobs. The ability/desire to supervise graduate com/faculty/job/Bentley-Campus/Tenure- student research and to pursue excel- Track-Open-Rank--Mathematical- lence in teaching are essential. To apply: Sciences_R0000318. Bentley University https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/120549. 44 amstat news october 2019 Applicants must have a PhD in statistics, biostatistics or related field by the time of employment. NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women and members of other Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica underrepresented groups are encouraged Tenure-Track Faculty Positions to apply. In addition, NC State University Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica is pleased to invite applications for our welcomes all persons without regard to tenure-track faculty positions. Academia Sinica, the most preeminent academic research sexual orientation or genetic information. institution in Taiwan, oﬀ ers a secured research environment facilitated with rich collaboration opportunities as well as the freedom of conducting independent research. With a strong tradition of theoretical and interdisciplinary research, the Institute of Statistical Science is aiming for global excellence in mathematical statistics and various statistical applications. Texas Applications are invited for tenure-track appointments as Full/Associate/Assistant Research n Fellows (equivalent to Full/Associate/Assistant Professors in Universities) in the Institute of The Department of Statistics and Data Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, to commence on August 1, 2020 or as soon as pos- Sciences at The University of Texas at sible thereafter. Applicants should possess a Ph.D. degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Com- Austin invites applications for an open puter Science, Data Science or related areas, and should submit: (1) a cover letter, (2) an up- rank tenured/tenure track faculty appoint- to-date curriculum vita, (3) a detailed publication list, (4) a research proposal, (5) three letters ment to begin in Fall 2020. Qualifications of recommendation, (6) representative publications and/or technical reports and (7) advisers’ names of master and PhD degrees. Additional supporting materials such as transcripts for include a PhD in statistics or related field new Ph.D. degree recipients may also be included. Electronic submissions are encouraged. with research interests in any area of sta- Applications should be submitted to tistical applications, theory, or methods. Dr. Yen-Tsung Huang, Chair of the Search Committee Details and application are available: Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica http://apply.interfolio.com/66455. EOE. 128 Sec. 2 Academia Road, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C. Fax: +886-2-27886833 E-mail: [email protected] Application materials should be received by December 27, 2019 for consideration, but early submissions are encouraged.

Department of Statistics Tenure-Track Faculty Positions

Th e Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University seeks to hire multiple tenure-track faculty. All ranks will be considered. Th e start date is August 2020.

Applicants with interests and expertise in theoretical or methodological research in any area of statistics or biostatistics will be considered. Candidates with interests in data science, machine learning, and modern methods of data analysis more generally are encouraged to apply. Th e ability and desire to supervise graduate student research and to pursue excellence in teaching are essential.

To apply, please visit: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/120549

Th e Department provides a dynamic environment for teaching, research and collaborations across disciplines. Inclusiveness and diversity are academic imperatives and are university goals: You will be expected to foster an environment that is supportive and welcoming of all groups. We are interested in candidates who have experience working with students from diverse backgrounds and have a demonstrated commitment to improving access to higher education for students from underrepresented groups.

Th e Department’s location in the Research Triangle provides rich opportunities for interactions with industry; other universities, including Duke Uni- versity and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and government agencies. Faculty enjoy collaborations with medical researchers at Duke, environmental scientists at the EPA research facility, pharmaceutical researchers at Glaxo-SmithKline, and software developers at SAS Institute, among many others. Th e Department is also a founding cooperator of the NSF-funded Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), located nearby in Research Triangle Park.

All applicants must have a Ph.D. in Statistics or Biostatistics or a related fi eld by the time of employment. Review of applications will begin soon, and continue until the positions are fi lled. Questions about the search may be directed to the Search Committee Chair ([email protected]).

NC State University is an equal opportunity and affi rmative action employer. Women and members of other underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. In addition, NC State University welcomes all persons without regard to sexual orientation or genetic information.

october 2019 amstat news 45 Utah n The Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah invites applications for full-time tenure-track or tenured appointments at the level of assistant, associate, or professor in all areas of statistics. These positions are part of a University-wide cluster hiring effort in statistics, with particular emphasis in mathematics, computer science, and bioengineering. Successful candidates will have strong interdisciplinary interests. More information at www. math.utah.edu/positions. The University of Utah is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer and edu- cator. Minorities, women, veterans, and those with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified veterans. Reasonable disability accommodations will be provided with adequate notice. For additional information about the University’s commitment to equal opportunity and access see: www.utah. edu/nondiscrimination. n

e Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking an outstanding colleague to join our tenure track faculty. Rank of appointment will be commensurate with experience. Both new PhDs and recent postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to apply. Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent in statistics, biostatistics, or a comparable eld. -Track Faculty Positions

e Hopkins Department of Biostatistics, founded in 1918, was the rst degree-granting department of statistical science in the US and has ranked among the world’s best throughout its history. Today, the Department comprises 23 tenure track faculty members, 20 research track faculty, 12 postdoctoral fellows and 76 students, two-thirds seeking PhDs. e Department has a proud history of collegiality and diversity. Margaret Merrell, the School’s rst female faculty member, was appointed in 1930 and became the School’s rst female professor. We highly value this tradition: Women and under-represented candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

e Department’s faculty, students and fellows strive to be in uential at the interface of the statistical and health sciences, with the ulti- mate goal to increase the health of all people. e Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing, the Johns Hopkins Health System, and the Johns Hopkins University are among the top worldwide and provide a research and educational environment in which faculty can achieve scienti c excellence. Current areas of expertise, like our people, are diverse, ranging from the real-time analysis of large, streaming data to philosophy and implementation of data science to statistical theory and methods. Our health applications include genomics, neuroimaging, clinical trials, population modeling, environmental health and many others. Learn more at https://www.jhsph.edu/ departments/biostatistics/.

TO APPLY Submit cover letter, CV, statements on research and educational interests and goals, two manuscripts or articles representing your most important work, and the identity of three references who you have asked to provide supporting letters to https://apply.interfolio.com/66969

e Johns Hopkins University is an a rmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting, supporting and fostering a diverse community of scholars. e Johns Hopkins University is a smoke-free environment and as such prohibits smoking in all facilities. e Johns Hopkins University is a drug-free workplace.

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