SECTION NEWS
Social Statistics
Make Officers Proud: Go to JSM Sessions
Sharon Stern, Section Publications Officer, and Jana Asher, 2008 Section Program Chair
A
re you heading to Denver this August for the Joint Statistical
Meetings? If so, you’ll have many excellent sessions from
which to choose, including four first-rate invited sessions
organized by the Social Statistics Section (SSS). They are spread
throughout the conference, so we encourage you to attend all. Mark
your schedules now.
To The Nth Power: Younger Statisticians Taking the Lead,
organized by Juanita Tamayo Lott, U.S. Census Bureau
Monday, August 4, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Panelists: Juanita Tamayo Lott, U.S. Census Bureau; Nagambal
Shah, Spelman College; Ben Hansen, University of Michigan;
Statistical Measures Can Help Restore Confidence in U.S.
Gayla Olbricht, Purdue University; Brian A. Millen, Eli Lilly
Elections, organized by Mary Batcher, Ernst & Young LLP
and Company
Thursday, August 7, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
Statistics Can Help Reduce Child Mortality, organized by
National Election Scorecard by Fritz Scheuren, The University
David J. Fitch, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
of Chicago, and Edward Mulrow, National Opinion Research
Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
Center
Child Survival Theory and Practice: How Do They Match? by
Voter Confidence and the Election Day Voting Experience by
Gareth Jones, Adeni Consulting
J. Quin Monson, Kelly Patterson, and David Magleby, Brigham
Young University
Child Mortality: What We Count Counts by Jef L. Leroy,
National Institute of Public Health and Jean-Pierre Habicht,
How ASA Members Are Helping States Improve Elections by
Cornell University
Arlene S. Ash, Boston University
How Can Statistics Save Lives? by Megan Price, Emory
In addition to the four we are sponsoring directly, the Social
University
Statistics Section is cosponsoring several interesting sessions. Those
can be found on the JSM online program at
www.amstat.org/
Guatemalan and Adam Smith World Realities by David J. Fitch,
meetings/jsm/2008/onlineprogram. We will provide information
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
about the SSS roundtables and topic-contributed sessions for JSM
Measuring Health Care Disparities, organized by Joseph
in future issues of Amstat News and our newsletter. In the mean-
Gastwirth, George Washington University
time, please contact 2008 SSS Program Chair Jana Asher at jana@
Wednesday, August 6, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
asher-resnick.us if you have questions.
Understanding Disparities Within and Among Geographical
What Can You Do for Your Section?
and Health Care Units by Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical
School
First, attend SSS invited sessions in 2008. Please consider attending
one or more of these sessions. Come to all of them if you can. Each
Application of the Peters-Belson Method for Estimating year, the Social Statistics Section officers strive to strengthen the
Disparities by Barry I. Graubard, National Cancer Institute; SSS portion of the JSM program. But, we need you—our mem-
Sowmya R. Rao, MGH Biostatistics Center/The Institute for Health bers—to support these efforts by attending SSS-sponsored sessions
Policy; and Joseph Gastwirth, George Washington University and encouraging your colleagues to do so, as well.
Improved Analysis of Weight-Loss Interventions for African-
Second, help plan SSS invited sessions for 2009. We also want
American Women by Justine Shults, Xiaoying Wu, and Shiriki
you to know it is not too early to think about topics for invited
Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania
sessions for JSM 2009 in Washington, DC. We will have more
information available about this in a future Amstat News article and
Empirical Likelihood Method for Determining Nonparametric in our monthly electronic newsletter. Until then, if you have any
Spirometry Reference Values for Hispanic Americans by Nancy specific ideas or general suggestions, contact 2009 SSS Program
L. Glenn, Texas Southern University Chair Kathleen O’Connor at
kdo7@cdc.gov. ■
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