CHAPTER NEWS
Georgia Chapter Holds Talks,
Judges Projects
T
he ASA’s Georgia Chapter recently a project. The project may be purely statisti- Michael S. Cherkassky from Edina High
held two local talks. Naisyin Wang, cal or involve the intelligent use of statistical School, Edina, Minnesota, for “Application
a professor in the Department of analyses or techniques in a subject-matter of Machine Learning Methods to Medical
Statistics at Texas A&M University, pre- project. The Georgia Chapter was respon- Diagnosis.” Third place was awarded to
sented “Exploratory Analysis via sible for judging the projects and choosing Reed Hurdle Falkner, Taylor Michael
Summarizing Curves” at the 2007 fall the top three. Twenty-four statisticians from McGraw, and Bradley Douglas Shields from
meeting at Emory University in Atlanta. the chapter participated in the process. Oxford High School, Oxford, Mississippi,
She focused on how statisticians can First place was awarded to Xiaomeng for “The Effect of Visually Enhanced
use basic statistical concepts with simple Zeng from West High School, Iowa City, Medicine Labels on Recall Ability.” The
curve fitting to summarize information Iowa, for “Crowding-Out or Crowding- prizes awarded to the first-, second-, and
and identify potential differences from bio- In: What Is the Relationship Between third-place winners were $1,000, $500,
logic data. Government and Private Funding for Public and $250, respectively, plus subscriptions
Marie Davidian, professor in the Libraries?” Second place was awarded to to STATS and CHANCE magazines. n
Department of Statistics at North Carolina
State University, presented “Toward
Individualizing Treatment to the Patient:
An Introduction to Dynamic Treatment
Regimes” at the 2008 spring meeting held
at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta. She
introduced the notion of a dynamic treat-
ment regime and used the setting of evalua-
tion of sequential courses of cancer therapy
to demonstrate how statistical inference
may be made on the effects of different
regimes based on suitable clinical trials.
Davidian then discussed the issues and
challenges involved in developing dynamic
treatment regimes using an ongoing project
involving the development of structured
treatment interruption strategies for man-
agement of patients acutely infected with
HIV-1. Both talks had large audiences and
were well received.
Additionally, the 2008 Intel International
Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
was held May 11–17 at the Georgia World
Congress Center. ISEF is the world’s larg-
est international pre-college science com-
petition and annually provides a forum
for high-school students from more than
40 countries to showcase their indepen-
dent research. This year, 1,246 projects
were entered.
The ASA Council of Chapters offers a
prize annually for the best use of statistics in
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