SECTION NEWS
TSHS Newsletter Editor Enjoys Job,
Bringing Life to News
Here, he offers suggestions for your section newsletter
Ed Gracely, TSHS Newsletter Editor
I
agreed to take on the role of editor for the pictures of speakers, the chair, and others writing articles. More
Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences recently, I started putting in a table of contents with hyperlinks to
Section (TSHS) almost four years ago. I the articles.
enjoy the job! It’s interesting to try and liven Take a look—our newsletters are online at
www.bio.ri.ccf.org/ASA_
up the newsletter, adding pictures, hyperlinks, TSHS/html/newsletter.htm going back almost 20 years. n
color, and other features. As the section’s news-
letter is entirely electronic, I don’t have to worry
about copying and mailing, nor do I need to be Risk Analysis
concerned about space limitations.
Most newsletters will probably be available
Papers Sought for Student
online as Adobe Acrobat files (PDF format).
I create mine in Microsoft Word, and then
Paper Competition
transfer them to Acrobat using Adobe Acrobat
Professional, which is available free to faculty
where I work. Not everyone will have a free
copy of the full program, but there is freeware
E
ntries are invited for the student paper competition of the
Risk Analysis Section. Each year, the section offers at least
one student travel award in the amount of $800 to defray
that will convert your document, so creating a
the costs of attending and presenting their work at JSM, to be
PDF file should not be a barrier. [Do a Google
held August 1–6. This competition is open to all graduate and
search to find freeware. DoPDF (www.dopdf.
undergraduate students, full- or part-time, attending an accredited
com) seems pretty user-friendly and well-rec-
academic program.
ssocia
tion
tatisti
cal A ommended. As with all freeware, some fea-
Ameri
can S
Your work may be the development of new methodology
Section on Statistics
& the Environment
tures may be limited.]
New
slet
ter
Volume 1
0, No. 1 in risk analysis or the application of existing risk methods in a
.amstat-on
line.org/sections/envr
http://www
Notes fro
m the Edi
tor
Obtaining material hasn’t been a problem
Spring 20
08
Ronald E
. McRobe
rts
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efits of
Northern Re
search Statio
n
novel way. The contribution may be a theoretical development,
ving b
eing edito
r is that I U.S. Forest Service
Notes fro
m the Cha
ir 2
St. Paul, MN
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Seeing and Obser aller
have the p
rivilege of
ts@fs.fed.us
rmcrober
Lance A. W tatistics inviting a
rticles for t
he
Let’s see, h
ow do we Department of Biosf Public Health Newsletter. Alth
ough iplines represented
“see”? Ofte
n, one of Rollins School o I try to spread th
ese
either, as there are several ‘standard’ sections
Emory Unive
rsity
the primar
y challeng
es
opportuni
ties among
the variou
s sub-disc
Atlanta, GA
30322
mory.eduin the field of envi- or it may cover any of the numerous applications of risk analysis,
istics lwaller@sp
h.e in ENVR, I so
metimes w
onder if m
y invitation
s are suffic
iently
ronmental
stat diverse. I think I
succeeded
this time. T
his issue in
cludes an
involves th
e difficulty
autobiogra
phical sket
ch from Ca
rol Gotway
-Crawford
who
in observin
g exactly works at the Cen
ters for Dis
ease Contr
ol, an artic
le by Don
what we w
ant in orde
r to addres
s the ques
tion or que
s-
Do landsca
pe barriers Stevens, Jr., on p
robability-
based vers
us model-b
ased envi-
tions of pr
imary inte
rest. Is the
climate ch
anging? D
oes
ronmental
sampling,
and an ov
erview of e
nvironmen
tal sta-
for a newsletter. The chair should write a few
air pollutio
n impact h
uman heal
th?
tistics rese
arch in Ital
y by Danie
la Cocchi.
-
influence t
he spread
of invasive
species? W
hat manag
e-
Carol and
Don are EN
VR stalwar
ts, of cours
e, but ENV
R
including environmental risk, financial risk, risk to engineering
ment strat
egies are b
est for wild
life conser
vation or n
atural
members
may not b
e acquaint
ed with Da
niela, an It
alian
resources?
These are
all importa
nt questio
ns that can
not
environme
ntal statist
ician. She a
nd I first m
et at a TIES
meet
JSM. Danie
la is cur-
be comple
tely answe
red within
a controlle
d, experim
en-
ing severa
l years ago,
and we ha
ve subsequ
ently conn
ected
ct.
tal setting.
If we cont
rol everyth
ing in a lab
oratory or
from time-
to-time inc
luding at a
recent
greenhous
e, how clos
ely will our
results ref
lect what w
e
rently the
TIES presid
ent-ele
See Editor
, page 7
paragraphs about recent and upcoming activ-
expect to s
ee in the “r
eal world”?
In contras
t, even the
best-
designed r
eplicate fie
ld studies c
an fall victi
m to unusu
ally
structures, health risks, and risks to defense and national security.
high or low
temperatu
res or rainf
all or a pop
ulation exp
lo-
sion of som
e unexpec
ted pest. Ye
t, as enviro
nmental st
at-
isticians, w
e continue
to learn w
hat we can
, adjust for
com-
Inside
plications,
and seek t
o extract th
e most info
rmation fro
m
1
our observ
ations, as n
oisy and im
perfect as
they migh
t be.
In environm
ental statis
tics, our da
ta are nois
y. They
Notes from
the Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ities, successes, awards, and so on. A book
ller . . . . . . . . . are correlated in tim
e and spac
e. Replicati
ons are oft
en
Lance A. W
a . .1
To enter this competition, you must submit a manuscript by
only appro
ximately so
at best. We
don’t get t
o observe
exactly wh
at we’d like
, when we
like, or how
the theory
Notes from
the Edito
r
McRobert
s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
says we sh
ould. In my
opinion, th
is is exactly
why work
ing
Ronald E.
. 2
in environm
ental statis
tics is chall
enging, ex
citing, and
, to
My career
in environ
mental sta
tistics: luck
, timing an
d
get the he
art of it, fun
. We, as sta
tisticians, n
eed to be f
lex-
other peo
ple
wford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ible, creativ
e, and inno
vative, ada
pting resu
lts from ide
al-
Carol Gotw
ay Cra review section is also valuable.
ized settin
gs to best
reflect the
circumsta
nces involv
ed
3
in the app
lication at
hand. We n
ot only nee
d models f
or
Optimal sa
mpling de
signs for n
atural reso
urce
January 10, 2009. The manuscript may be a paper already sub-
what we se
e, but also
models of
how we se
e it. In othe
r
ogical assessm
ent: proba
blity-base
d or mode
l-based?
ens, Jr. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
words, in o
rder to und
erstand wh
at we obse
rve, we nee
d
Don L. Ste
v
to underst
and how w
e observe
it. This is es
pecially tru
e in
an era awa
sh in mass
es of data
arising from
technol
Research
in Enviro
nmental
Statistics
in Italy 6
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-9, 11
breakthrou
ghs in wha
t we can m
easure, oft
en outpac
ing
Daniela Co
cchi. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
methodolo
gical and d
esign deve
lopments d
efining wh
at
Our section appoints an official book
we should
measure t
o address a
particular
question o
r
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 mitted for publication or a draft representing work in progress.
hypothesis
. 2008 , page 7
To this end
, the See Chair
focus of th
e ASA Sec
tion
e
on Statisti
cs and th
review editor. Naturally, that individual
There are no requirements concerning the length of the manu-
can delegate the reviews, but it is his or
script, but conciseness is encouraged. In addition, we require a
her responsibility to see to it that one is provided. Our book
letter from the advisor, certifying that the student is registered as a
review editor, Dan Byrne, tells me he usually gets his books from
student during the spring of 2009 and that the student is primar-
marketing editors of the major publishing firms.
ily responsible for the work contained in the paper. Joint papers
Bob Oster, our section’s publications officer, contributes a col-
are acceptable, but the student should be the first-named author
umn to each issue, as well. These articles describe publications by and the advisor’s letter should make clear the student’s contribu-
section members, discuss issues with and promote the use of the tion relative to coauthors.
section’s web site, and make note of publications that are sponsored Entrants will be judged based on relevance and interest of
or cosponsored by the section. the subject matter, the quality of writing, and the quality of
In the late spring and summer, as the Joint Statistical Meetings the research.
approach, the newsletter has a lot of information about sessions, Entries should be sent to Richard Smith, chair of the Risk
roundtables, and other activities being undertaken there by TSHS Analysis Section Student Paper Award Committee, by email
members. In the fall, I try to get summaries of interesting sessions to
rls@email.unc.edu. Please include the words “Student Paper
people gave, and I may write about ones I attended. Award” in the subject line of your email. The manuscript and sup-
When I started the job, the newsletter was black and white,
porting materials should be included as PDF documents attached
lacked pictures, and was intended for printing. It looked nice for a
to the email. The result will be announced no later than January
newsletter that would be mass duplicated on paper, but didn’t take
31. The winner(s) will be required to submit their abstract to JSM
full advantage of the electronic medium. I added color and put in
by February 2, 2009.
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