ASA Journals in Need of Editors
N
ominations and applications are being
sought for the following editor positions:
— Reviews editor, Journal of the American
Statistical Association
— Reviews editor, The American Statistician
— editor, Journal of Agricultural, Biological,
and Environmental Statistics
— editor, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical
Research
The deadline for nominations is December
1, 2009.
If you know someone who would be right for
The Reviews section of JASA publishes
the editorship of one of these journals, send that
review-type articles and reviews of recently pub-
person’s name, email address, and a brief descrip-
lished books relevant to the JASA audience.
tion of his or her qualifications to journals@
The Reviews section in TAS publishes reviews
amstat.org. Self-nominations are encouraged. n
of materials related to the teaching of statis-
tics, including textbooks; special volumes and
proceedings concerning statistical education;
software, videotapes, and organized sources of
data; and Internet resources intended for
Mathematical Sciences
statistical education.
The Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and
Environmental Statistics publishes articles of imme-
survey Results Released
diate and practical value to applied researchers and
statistical consultants in the agricultural sciences,
biological sciences (including biotechnology), and
environmental sciences (including those dealing
with natural resources).
T
he 2008 “Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences, Second
Report” is now available at
www.ams.org/notices/200907. The
report presents information about departments, faculties, and
statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
students in the mathematical sciences at four-year colleges and univer-
publishes articles that focus on the needs of
sities in the United States. The information in the report was collected
researchers and applied statisticians in bio-
from doctorate-granting departments beginning in late spring 2008.
pharmaceutical industries; academic biostatisticians
In addition, the report incorporates information about 143 doctoral
from schools of medicine, veterinary medicine, pub-
recipients’ room departments that responded too late to have the
lic health, and pharmacy; statisticians and quanti-
information included in the first report.
tative analysts working in regulatory agencies (e.g.,
The 2009 survey represents the 52nd in an annual series begun in
U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its counter-
1957 by the American Mathematical Society. It is under the direc-
part in other countries); statisticians with an interest
tion of the Data Committee, a joint committee of the American
in adopting methodology presented in this journal
Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the
to their own fields; and nonstatisticians with an
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Society of Industrial
interest in applying statistical methods to biophar-
and Applied Mathematics, and the Mathematical Association of
maceutical problems.
America. The first report appeared in the Notices of the American
New editors will serve from 2011 through
Mathematical Society in February 2009 and can be viewed at
2013, with the transition beginning in 2010.
www.ams.org/notices/200902. n
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