Category: News
Teachers, Celebrate National STEM Day With Your Students
November 08, 2018
In honor of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) community, today we are celebrating National STEM Day. These disciplines play a vital role in the advancement of scientific innovation and economic growth. National STEM Day is an opportunity to encourage your students to explore and pursue their interests in STEM topics, which includes statistics....
Public Health Data Challenge: Meet the Judges
November 01, 2018
ASA’s Public Health Data Challenge asks students to use their analytical and data visualization skills to create ideas that could help take steps toward resolving or reducing the national opioid crisis. As we inch closer to the November 12 submission deadline, we’d like to introduce the contest judges. Using the criteria described here, these public health...
Resources Roundup: Public Health Data Challenge
October 18, 2018
ASA’s Public Health Data Challenge is underway, turning the spotlight on how statistics can be used to address the opioid addiction crisis. In 2016, more Americans lost their lives to opioid overdoses than car crashes. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of injury death in the U.S., but we can use statistics to reduce...
Student Contest: Announcing the Public Health Data Challenge
October 09, 2018
American Statistical Association’s (ASA) annual fall data challenge for students is back! This year’s Public Health Data Challenge will turn the spotlight on the impact statistics has to improve public health with a focus on the opioid addiction crisis. If you want to learn first-hand how statistics can make a difference in the world, this is the contest for...
Statistics Behind Fantasy Football: Prediction, Probability, and Pigskin
September 27, 2018
Since its inception in 1962, fantasy football has given both fans of America’s most popular sport, as well as statistics enthusiasts, the ability to manage a virtual NFL team while competing against friends, family or perfect strangers to see who will triumph. At the start of the NFL season, fantasy football leagues host online drafts where participants select players to create...
Fall Data Challenge for Students
September 20, 2018
Launched last year with the Police Data Challenge, the This is Statistics fall contest is an annual tradition. Each seasonal event engages students to explore datasets on an important hot topic, putting their statistics skills to work on a real-life issue. What is this year’s focus? More details will follow soon! Stay tuned! Or, subscribe to...
Back to School with Stats: ‘What’s Going On in This Graph?’ is Now Weekly!
September 11, 2018
Are you taking a statistics course this year? If you are, congratulations! You’re in for a fun and challenging course that will build important skills for your future, no matter what career you choose. Here’s what you can expect in the year ahead. But don’t worry, even if you aren’t enrolled for a statistics course right now, you can still build your skills! “What’s Going...
Back to School: 3 Reasons to Get Excited for Your Statistics Course
August 23, 2018
Dust off your calculator and crack open a brand-new notebook, because we’re celebrating back to school season! If you’ve signed up for a statistics course, congratulations on this exciting opportunity for your future. And if you haven’t, here’s what you’re missing out on: Statisticians have the coolest jobs If you are a sports fanatic, passionate about health, love technology, want to save the planet or are business savvy, then a...
#LeadWithStatistics: JSM 2018
August 09, 2018
This is Statistics joined more than 6,000 professionals from 52 countries around the world in Vancouver for the annual Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM). This year’s theme was #LeadWithStatistics, which highlights how to demonstrate and exemplify leading with statistical collaboration and partnerships throughout the statistical community and beyond. JSM is one of the largest statistical events...
Leslie McClure: Careers in Biostatistics Research
July 26, 2018
Prof. Leslie McClure, Ph.D., M.S., uses her expertise in biostatistics to pursue diverse interests ranging from statistical methodology to environmental epidemiology. In addition, Leslie researches racial and geographic disparities in diseases and the role that the environment plays in those disparities, and has worked with NASA, directed the Statistical Center for the Secondary Prevention of...