The vast amount of data in the business world is increasing every day, and effective analyses of these large data sets is crucial for businesses to gain a competitive advantage. In response to this demand, Data 4 Decisions, an unprecedented new data science conference and exposition, is aiming to... more
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Many times longitudinal surveys have to answer a question on how to combine differing cohorts of the survey. These different cohorts can be things such as disjoint populations, a single population or overlapping populations. Former NISS postdoc Ivan A. Carrillo and NISS Director, Alan F. Karr,... more
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The NISS and SAMSI affiliates meeting held March 16 in Baltimore was a great success! The meeting highlighted two hard problems: A Cross-Sector High-impact Project and A Cross-Sector Research Opportunity. The afternoon discussion was about how to become a leader in the profession. Senior... more
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This blog from Harvard Business Review mentions the article that Stanley S. Young and Alan Karr wrote for Significance magazine.http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/when-research-should-come-with-a-warning-label/
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An editorial was published in Forbes Magazine January 8, 2014 by Henry I. Miller and S. Stanley Young about the current state of science methodology.
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An article in Forbes Magazine talks about how fine particle air pollution may not be linked to mortality. Dr. S. Stanley Young and Dr. Jessie Xia of NISS' article, "Assessing geographic heterogeneity and variable importance in an air pollution data set" from Statistical Analysis and Data Mining are... more
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Making the transition between graduate school and a new career can be daunting. Academia guides people each step of the way, checking a person’s work and telling them what to do and how to think about a particular topic, but life outside of the classroom is different. Read more here about George... more
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Sally Morton and Thomas Gerig received the 2013 NISS Distinguished Service Awards, which were presented by Alan Karr, Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) on August 5, 2013. The awards were given at the NISS/SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute... more
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Kenneth P Burnham was selected as the 2013 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research. The award was announced at the 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal, Canada. The annual award, named in honor of Jerome (Jerry) Sacks, the founding director of NISS, was established in 2000 to... more
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S. Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics for the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), and Jessie Q. Xia, former NISS postdoctoral fellow, report on the re-analysis of a data set used in a 2009 New England Journal of Medicine paper by C. Arden Pope, III, and co-authors.... more