November 2015 • Issue #461 AMSTATNEWS The Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association • http://magazine.amstat.org The ASA 2015ellow UPDATE Award F ALSO: Statisticians in Sierra Leone Technological Advance and Economic Growth: Stagnation or Revival? The Identity of Statistics in Data Science AMSTATNEWS NOVEMBER 2015 • ISSUE #461 Executive Director Ron Wasserstein:
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