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NISS welcomes James Rosenberger as new NISS Director

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NISS welcomes Dr. James Rosenberger as the new NISS Director, effective from August 1, 2017. The announcement was made by Chairwoman Mary Batcher at the NISS JSM Reception on July 31, 2017. Rosenberger succeeds Dr. Nell Sedransk. The decision was made after an extensive search process which... more

Shanti Gomatam and Minge Xie receive the 2017 NISS Former Postdoc Achievement Awards

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NISS is proud to honor former postdoctoral fellows, Dr. Shanti Gomatam and Dr. Minge Xie, with the 2017 NISS Postdoc Achievement Award. The awards were presented to Gomatam and Xie at the 2017 NISS JSM Reception. The NISS Awards Committee made the selection decision after a series of discussions... more

Phillip Kott receives the 2017 NISS Distinguished Service Award

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Dr. Phillip Kott, a Senior Research Statistician at the Research Triangle Institute International's Center of Excellence for Complex Data Analysis, received the 2017 NISS Distinguished Service Award. Kott has been serving on the NISS Board of Trustees since 2011. The award recognizes Kott's... more

Jun S. Liu receives the 2017 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences presented Dr. Jun S. Liu, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University with the 2017 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research. The award recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.... more

NISS Spreads its Wings at the JSM

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NISS' participation in one of the largest Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) held in Baltimore, Maryland, from July 30th to August 3rd, 2017, was a success and well-attended.  NISS kicked off the event on Sunday by hosting a Luncheon Workshop for Affiliates attended by more than 40 members... more

NISS co-sponsors the 2017 USCOTS Conference in Pennsylvania

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) co-sponsored the 2017 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), held between May 18th and 20th at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel State College, Pennsylvania. The USCOTS is the largest biennial conference that is... more

NISS Co-sponsors STATMOS Workshop on Climate Extremes

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NISS co-sponsors the STATMOS (Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) workshop on climate extremes held in State College, Pa., on October 23-25, 2016. The objective of the workshop is twofold, the first part is to introduce graduate students as well as prospective students looking... more

NISS co-sponsors UNC's 2017 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference

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NISS co-sponsored the University of North Carolina's (UNC) 2017 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference (ACIC) held on the UNC campus, on May 23-25, 2017. The ACIC brings together statisticians, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, economists, social science and policy researchers to discuss... more

R and Spark: Tools for Data Science Workflows. A new NISS course

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NISS is introducing a two-day "R and Spark: Tools for Data Science Workflows" course to enable statisticians to work with Big Data. The course will be offered on September 14-15, 2017 at the American Statistical Association offices in Alexandria, Va., and on September 30 - October 1, 2017, at the... more

NISS at the 2017 Conference on Statistical Practice

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NISS affiliates and Board members represented NISS at the Conference on Statistical Practice (CSP) held in Jacksonville, Florida from February 23-25, 2017. Reaching out to statisticians in business and government, the conference aimed to provide participants with opportunities to learn new... more

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