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Students in the News
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Six Women Describe Their WiTNY Winternship Experiences
In 2018, 46 companies joined Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York’s (WiTNY) “winternship” program to pair undergraduate women pursuing technical majors from the City University of New York with internships during their winter break.
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Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Presents 2018 Young Investigator Awards
The annual Young Investigator awards go to new researchers for the best papers in statistics in epidemiology presented at JSM.
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10 Win Statsketball Challenge, Prove Statistics Is Fun
Statsketball 2018 pitted students in 189 teams against each other to predict the outcomes of the 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament using statistics.
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Two Selected for Natrella Scholarship
The Mary G. and Joseph Natrella scholarships will be awarded to Anh Bui and Xiaowei Yue during the 2018 Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and Technology.
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Student Chapter Hosts Counting Card Social
The Statistics Club at Florida International University hosted a counting card social, gained new members and had a lot of statistics-related fun.
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Ying Sun Wins Young Researcher Award from International Environmetrics Society
Ying Sun, assistant professor of statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, won the 2016 Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Researcher (AEYR) Award from the International Environmetrics Society (TIES).
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Criteria for Open Data Portals Offer Best Practices for Websites
Students in the Data Science for the Public Good Program at the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory provide feedback about effective website design, providing a comprehensive set of criteria extendable to all open data portals. These criteria suggest a number of best practices for user interface and data structure, which any locality creating and maintaining an open data portal should consider.
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11 Honored with Byar, Travel Awards
The David P. Byar Young Investigator Award is given annually to a new researcher in the Biometrics Section who presents an original manuscript at the Joint Statistical Meetings. Travel award winners will each receive an award to offset the cost of presenting their papers at JSM 2016.
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CSP Award Winners
Brittney Bailey, winner of the Lester R. Curtin award; Peng Liu, winner of the Lingzi Lu award; and Joy Liu, winner of the Bartko scholarship, will receive registration and travel support to the ASA Conference on Statistical Practice.
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The NMSU ASA Student Chapter Leadership and Ron Wasserstein
At a special seminar series at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein discussed the problems inherent in p-values specifically and how they are misunderstood, misused, and maligned.