American Statistical Association
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American Statistical Association
Variant: ASA
A scientific and educational society founded in 1839 in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second oldest professional society in the United States. Its current headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia. The Association has nearly 18 000 members. It publishes nine journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the American Statistician. Since 1965 the Wilks Medal has been presented annually for distinguished contributions to Statistics.
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- http://www.amstat.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main -- Association home page.
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American Statistical Association (ASA)
Professional society of statisticians and other persons interested in the application of statistics to human behavior, founded in 1839 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. ASA studies on economic, business, and social statistics are of primary interest in marketing and advertising research. The association also publishes the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
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American Statistical Association
The American Statistical Association (ASA), is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States. The ASA services statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across many academic areas and applications.
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Mission
The organization's mission is to broadly promote good application of statistical science, specifically to:[1]
- support excellence in statistical practice, research, journals, and meetings
- work for the improvement of statistical education at all levels
- promote the proper application of statistics
- anticipate and meet member needs
- use the discipline of statistics to enhance human welfare
- seek opportunities to advance the statistics profession
Membership
ASA has about 18,000 members, found in government, academia, and the private sector. The membership is involved in a wide variety of activities including:[2]
- research in medical areas such as AIDS
- environmental risk assessment
- the development of new therapeutic drugs
- the exploration of space
- quality assurance in industry
- the examination of social issues such as the homeless and the poor
- analytic research on current business problems and economic forecasting
- the setting of standards for statistics used at all levels of government
- the promotion and development of statistical education for the public and the profession, and
- the expansion of methods and the use of computers and graphics to advance the science of statistics
Fellowship
New Fellowships of the ASA are granted annually by the ASA Committee on Fellows. Candidates must have been members for the preceding three years but may be nominated by anyone. The maximum number of recipients each year is one-third of one percent of the ASA membership.[3]
Organizational structure
ASA is organized in Sections, Chapters and Committees. Chapters are arranged geographically, representing 78 areas across the US and Canada. Sections are subject-area and industry-area interest groups covering 22 sub-disciplines. ASA has more than 60 committees coordinating meetings, publications, education, careers, and special-interest topics involving statisticians.
Publications
The ASA publishes several scientific journals:
- Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)
- The American Statistician (TAS)
- Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES)
- Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)
- Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS)
- Technometrics (TECH)
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It co-sponsors:
- The Current Index to Statistics (CIS)
Historical publications include:
- Edward Jarvis, William Brigham and John Wingate Thornton, Memorial Of The American Statistical Association Praying The Adoption Of Measures For The Correction Of Errors In The Census, 1844
See also
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- President of the American Statistical Association
- American Mathematical Society
- COPSS Presidents' Award
- Statistics Without Borders (SWB)
External links
- American Statistical Association
- The ASA: the First 160 years by Robert L. Mason
- MacTutor: American Statistical Association
References
- ^ "About ASA". American Statistical Organization. 2009. http://www.amstat.org/about/index.cfm. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ^ "ASA members". American Statistical Association. 2009. http://www.amstat.org/about/asamembers.cfm. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ^ "Awards and Recognition". American Statistical Association. http://www.amstat.org/careers/awards.cfm. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
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