Tag: Statistics
Statistician: A 2019 Top Job in America
January 24, 2019
Looking for a career path that has potential for growth, pays well, is low stress and offers a healthy work-life balance? Statistician ranked the best business job, period, and the second best job in America by U.S. News & World Report in 2019. UPDATE, April 2019: USA TODAY named “statistician” as the #5 top job in...
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...
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...
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...
A Passion for Statistics: An Interview with Madhumita Roy
May 31, 2018
Madhumita found her passion for statistics, the science of learning from data, as an undergraduate economics student in India. She learned that among her other courses, statistics was the most useful and relevant subject that can be applied to any field of study. She then received her master’s in statistics from the Institute of Science...
Statsketball 2018: Congratulations to our Winners!
April 10, 2018
Statsketball 2018 pitted 189 student teams against each other to predict the outcomes of the 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament using statistics. The two contests included the “Pick ‘Em”: Upset Challenge to predict the winners of the first-round games and the “Build Your Own Bracket”: Draft Challenge to select teams from 224 draft points, and...
Video: Statistics is For Everyone
March 29, 2018
Statisticians work across a range of diverse fields, including human rights advocacy, healthcare and journalism. And, as a Rochester Institute of Technology student Cho Yau says in our latest video: “Smart is the new sexy.” In this video, you’ll hear about the important role statistics plays in our lives from Cho and other professionals, including:...
St. Patrick’s Day: The Statistics Legacy Behind Guinness
March 17, 2018
William Sealy Gosset worked at the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland, in 1904 as an experimental brewer. His job was to experiment with the process to improve the taste while also increasing quantity and decreasing costs. In his creative problem-solving to address these challenges, Gosset is responsible for inspiring a ground-breaking method for determining likely error of an estimate,...
Are You Ready for the Statsketball Tournament 2018?
March 07, 2018
The 2018 Statsketball tournament is right around the corner. Are you ready for the competition? Statsketball 2018 is a statistical prediction contest to determine the stakes of this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament using statistics. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up everything you’ll need to predict the outcome of the basketball tournament using statistics rather...