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Below are articles from the mass media featuring NISS.

Ars Technica: We're So Good at Medical Studies that Most of them are Wrong

By nunnelly, Mar 3, 2010

Stan Young, Assistant Director, Bioinformatics at NISS, was part of a panel that spoke at the AAAS conference in San Diego in February 2010. This article describes that most times, epidemiology studies have problems with statistics. The author of this article  from Ars Technica believes that the statistical tools for evaluating the science hasn't kept up pace with the scientific output. Click here to read the article.

Three Interns Share Insights from NISS-NASS Projects

By nunnelly, Dec 23, 2009

This article shares insights from three interns that were involved with the NISS-NASS research in residence program. The article was published in AmStat News December 2009 issue. You can find the article starting on page 49.

How the Temperature Data Was Analyzed

By nunnelly, Nov 4, 2009

The Associated Press sought independent statistical analyses of global temperatures to determine if there is a true cooling of Earth's climate.Alan Karr, director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, is quoted in the article.

Bell and Volinsky Part of AT&T Team that Won $1Million from Netflix Prize contest

By nunnelly, Sep 21, 2009

Congratulations to Bob Bell and Chris Volinsky from AT&T, one of NISS' affiliates, who are part of the team that won the $1M Grand Prize from the Netflix Prize contest. They won the prize for devising the best way for Netflix to improve its movie recommendation algorithm, which generates an average of 30 billion predictions per day, by ten percent or greater.

News & Observer: Science Institute gets federal dollars

By nunnelly, Aug 25, 2009

This article is about NISS helping to develop Bayesian models for syndromic surveillance so that health officials can detect an onset of a disease breakout or a bioterrorism attack a little earlier than they have in the past. This article was posted August 24, 2009.

 

Current and Former NISS Board Members win 2009 ASA Founders Awards

By nunnelly, Aug 11, 2009

Congratulations to former NISS Board of Trustees members Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Bob Rodriguez, SAS Institute and current Vice-Chair of the NISS Board of Trustees, Jessica Utts, University of California, Irvine, for receiving a 2009 American Statistical Association (ASA) Founders Award. The awards are given to ASA members who have rendered distinguished service to the association.

Click here for more about the awards.

Wall Street Journal - Why That Big Meal You Just Ate Made You Hungry

Created on Jan 27, 2009

S. Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics at NISS, was quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Newsweek article: Designer Babies

Created on Jan 15, 2009

S. Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics at NISS, was mentioned in this article dated January 15, 2009 in Newsweek.