Medpedia: Do Biostatisticians
ASA Community:
Have a Role?
A New Benefit of Membership
T
he ASA is pleased to announce our newest
Glossary
benefit of membership, the ASA Community.
Collaborate to create and build industry defini-
We know our members are our foundation,
tions. Rate definitions and add comments to
and we hope the ASA Community will further foster
build definitions and terms so they can be used by
member engagement and interaction within the
other members.
ASA. The ASA Community provides an online set-
ting for like-minded statisticians to connect with
Calendar
their peers by offering the following features:
Access calendars for specific groups and the master
Networking
calendar for all ASA Community events.
Set up your personal member profile and connect
Begin connecting today at http://community.
with ASA colleagues and peers quickly and easily.
amstat.org. n
ASAGroups
The new online home for our ASA committees, sec-
tions, and chapters, ASAGroups allows group mem-
bers to exchange information in real time based on
individual communication preferences. Information
Funny Statisticians?
is automatically accessible and archived for the
group. Ad hoc groups created by members around a
The AsA’s T-shirts were recently featured in articles about
common interest are encouraged.
JsM published in The Washington Post and The New York
Times. Read what one student had to say about the humor
Resource Library
behind some of the T-shirts on his blog, “New school
The Resource Library is where members may share,
Economic Review,” at http://newschooljournal.com/2009/08/
comment on, rate, and tag documents. By using
funny-statisticians. To see all the AsA’s T-shirt designs,
the Resource Library, members expand the ASA
visit the AsA Marketplace at www.amstat.org/asastore.
knowledge base.
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