This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
Southern California
Entries Increase for Poster Competition
Student(s) Poster Title School
Chelsea Pinedo
Does Your Hand Span Affect Your Guitar Hero Score? Capistrano Valley High School
Kellie Mortimer
Micheal Johnson
EHS Perspective Obama vs. Clinton Etiwanda High School
Patrick Wong
Priscilla Aquirre Plastic Surgery Etiwanda High School
Vianey Hernandez GPA vs. Hours Watched on TV Los Osos High School
Jasper Lee
Love or Bread Mark Keppel High School
Yuying Li
Aaron Chin
Jasmin Chen Does a Higher Ratio of Ring Finger Length Over Index Finger Length Correlate to
Mark Keppel High School
Ryan Chiu More Musical Talent?
Vincent Nguyen
Henry Cheung
More Cars, Less Pollution? Mark Keppel High School
Lawrence Chau
Ari Quilala
Jessica Yang
How Does Music Affect Your Heart Beat? Temple City High School
Paul Shao
Sinthu Kumar
Lilya Dischyan
M&Ms Temple City High School
Lynn Hou
Richard Beck The Changing Conditions of Immigrants Vistamar School
M
embers of the Southern California President Mary Ellen Bock. She spoke about cussed marketing data analysis, Susan
Chapter held their annual Career the versatility of statisticians and how they Paddock of RAND Corporation spoke
Day in Statistics March 1, which can go by many names and work in a vari- about statisticians in public policy research,
has included the High School Statistics ety of fields/industries, including bioinfor- and John Gins of Information Resources
Poster Competition for the past three years. matics, financial services, credit card com- Inc. discussed looking at applied statistics
The day, organized by Marika Suttorp panies, and web-related companies. She also through the client’s eyes.
of RAND Corporation, offered students spoke about the academic demand for more The SCASA High School Poster
the chance to meet with university rep- statistics courses, instructors, graduates, and Competition, organized by Rodney Jee of
resentatives and prospective employers. programs, which was created by industry Fair Isaac Corporation, has grown every
Participating companies and organizations demand for hires with statistical expertise year. This year, there were eight local high
included Amgen, the ASA, City of Hope, and by statisticians getting involved in more schools that sent entries and observers,
Hiner and Partners, Kaiser Permanente, LA areas of organizations. Because statistics can while 75 students entered in the competi-
Chapter of ACM, RAND Corporation, be applied to such a range of fields, it is a tion. There also were an additional 33 stu-
Salford Systems, Farmer’s Insurance, and good subject for those who are unsure of dents, eight teachers, and numerous parents
Transamerica. Local universities represent- what they want to go into. who came to observe. Twenty-three judges
ed were Cal State Long Beach, University In the afternoon, there were several from local universities and industry also
of California Los Angeles, University of statisticians from local industry who dis- participated. Below are the 10 entries cho-
California Riverside, and the University of cussed life as a statistician. Harry Hiner sen as this year’s winners.
Southern California. of Hiner & Partners Inc. talked about For more information about this and
After the morning meet-and-greet, a statistics in marketing research, Mike Jay other Southern California Chapter events,
lunchtime talk was given by ASA Past- of Marketing Software Company dis- visit www.sc-asa.org. ■
60 AMSTAT NEWS MAY 2008
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92
Produced with Yudu - www.yudu.com