CHAPTER NEWS
Boston
Sigma Rho (the national statistics Preceding the symposium on
honor society). Thursday morning will be a short
Additional members of the planning course, “Evaluating Probability of
committee are always welcome. Come Success for Internal Decisionmaking in
Boston Chapter Officers
join us for a meal and spirited discussion. Early Drug Development,” presented
Dominique Haughton, president
by Narinder Nangia, Martin King, and
Kansas-Western Missouri
Jane Qian of Abbott Laboratories. This
James MacDougall, vice president
course will provide a broad overview of
The Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter methods for assessing data throughout
Yu Zhao, treasurer
will hold its second symposium, titled the drug development process to make
“Innovations in Design, Analysis, the best decision about a compound
Matt Tom, program chair
and Dissemination: Frontiers in or product. It is designed for statisti-
Tzu-Min Yeh, secretary
Biostatistical Methods,” on April 2 and cians working in the pharmaceutical
3 in Kansas City, Missouri. or biotechnology industries. Some
Maureen Mayer, Council of
The keynote address, “Analysis familiarity with clinical trials and the
Chapters representative
of Fixed Effects ANOVA Models drug development process is desirable.
of Missing Cells,” will be delivered For more information about the sym-
by Michael H. Kutner, professor posium and short course or to register,
and chair of the Department of visit www.amstat-online.org/chapters/
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at kwestern. Attendees can sign up for the
The Boston Chapter—serving mem-
Emory University. Following the pre-symposium short course, the sym-
bers in Massachusetts, Vermont, New
address will be two invited presenta- posium, or both. The event is being
Hampshire, and Maine—continues to
tions and a mixer event. The next cosponsored by Cerner Corporation and
offer a varied program of lectures, social
day will be full of invited presenta- the Department of Biostatistics at the
events, short courses, and conferences
tions in biostatistical methods. University of Kansas Medical Center. ■
for its 465 members. Lecture highlights
from 2008 include talks about statisti-
cal help for troubled U.S. elections by
Arlene Ash, life in statistical software
development by Tom Lane and Peter
Perkins, and the true meaning of i.i.d.
in applied statistics by Xiao-Li Meng.
Richard De Veaux received the
Mosteller Statistician of the Year
award. After the award dinner, he
gave a talk, titled “Lessons from the
Trenches: What Data Mining Teaches
Me About Teaching Statistics.”
Short courses were a major focus of
last year’s program. A number of half-
ASA’s Online
day and full-day courses were offered,
all of which were well-attended. Kate
Tranbarger taught “An Introduction
FORUM
to R”; David Hosmer offered “Applied
Logistic Regression”; and Tim Hesterberg
is available to members.
led “Bootstrap Methods and Permutation
Tests.” The chapter collaborated with
other regional chapters on the last
The forum encourages general discussion
course, which was attended by mem-
bers of at least three ASA chapters.
related to statistics. Access to the forum may be
In addition, the chapter cosponsored
a gathering of isolated academic statisti-
found in the ASA Members Only
cians and events at Harvard University,
area at www.amstat.org/membersonly.
hosted a winter warming party, and
sponsored 18 student members of Mu
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