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Breaking Down the Impossible: How Applied Statistics Can Guide Humanitarian Response
Statistics offers a way to turn huge, daunting problems into smaller questions that can be measured and answered, such as a water crisis in Africa.
Opportunities
Students and Early-Career Professionals: ASA Has a Fund for You
The ASA Student and Early Career Travel Fund helps students and early-career statisticians attend ASA meetings, based on both merit and financial need.
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Nominations Sought for Peter Hall IMS Early Career Prize
The prize honors Peter Hall’s legacy as a mentor through his professional career. Nominate a colleague by December 1.
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Submissions Sought for Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Competition
Submit your paper for the 2027 Biopharmaceutical Student Paper Awards by December 1 to present at the Joint Statistical Meetings next year.
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Nominations Sought for 2027 COPSS Emerging Leader Award
The Emerging Leader Award recognizes individuals who show strong leadership potential and will help shape and strengthen the field of statistics.
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Transportation Statistics Interest Group Offers Student Paper Competition
Students can win up to $1,500 and support to attend JSM 2027 by submitting a transportation statistics paper to the ASA interest group’s competition by December 15.
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Applications Sought for Summer Institute in Brain Imaging Genetics
Apply by January 31 for a hands-on program that trains early-career researchers in reproducible brain imaging genetics analysis, with travel, housing, and some meals covered.
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Careers
Navigating the Statistical Career Landscape: Lessons from Across Sectors of Industry, Government, and Academia
Drawing on three decades at the FDA, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly, Aloka Chakravarty shares what stays constant and what changes when statisticians move across sectors, with advice for early-career professionals.
Statistics in Service Series | Using Statistics to Help Others
Statistics can be a force for good, but what does that look like in practice? In the second part of our statistics in service series, we interviewed David Corliss, who is heavily involved in Data for Good initiatives.
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Making Sense
The Crime of Being Improbable
A statistic that sounds impossibly rare can seem like proof of guilt, but two real court cases show why a number means little without asking what else could explain the evidence.
Confidence Intervals: An Estimate’s Wiggle Room
Learn why confidence isn’t the same as certainty and why understanding the wiggle room behind an estimate can help us look beyond the headline.
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AI Doesn’t Think. It Predicts.
Artificial intelligence doesn’t know what will happen next. It calculates what’s likely to happen next based on patterns in vast amounts of data. It’s all rooted in probability.
community
DataFest 2026: Where Data Meets Real-World Questions
Students from 128 institutions, including a record 15 international ones, spent 48 hours at ASA DataFest 2026 turning real-world data into insights about the issues that matter to communities.
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Notes from My First JSM
Adeeba Tak shares an account of her first JSM experience, enabled by the ASA Student and Early Career Travel Fund.
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