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Statisticians in the News

News agencies across the globe are reporting on statistics, on important developments in the fields of statistical application and how statisticians are contributing in the areas of scientific advancement, discovery and innovation. The following are a small sampling of these articles:

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December 2008

• Bandeen-Roche Named Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics
  
  
• Man Behind the Creative Class Stats Shares Ideas on Detroit

November 2008

• National Institute of Statistical Sciences Names Three New People to Its Board of Trustees
  
  
• Stan Young Speaking at November Meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of American Statistical Association
  
  
• Mayo Clinic Study Finds Risk Assessment Tool Not Reliable Predictor for Some Women at High Risk of Breast Cancer
  
  
• Numbers Never Lie
  
  
• Ecology angle for new Chair of Statistics
  
  
• FiveThirtyEight.com's Final: Obama 349, McCain 189
  
  
• Schools hire statistician to analyze data, scores
  
  
• Odds of single vote deciding election: 1 in 60M
  
  
• Becker takes reins at GSU
  
  
  

October 2008

• Poll analysis sites put new spin on statistics
  
  
• Statistician Nate Silver explains the presidential polls
  
  
• Two HSPH Professors Honored with Election to Institute of Medicine for their Scientific Contributions
  
  
• Recommendations Received for Georgia State Presidency
  
  
• John McCain's Big Bailout Blunder
  
  
• Alex Rodriguez, Clutch Hitter
  
  
• Wisconsin to produce largest wheat harvest yet
  
  
• Long sick leave for colds signals poor health later: study
  
  
  

September 2008

• Oxford Statistician Tells Congress He Is No Pharma Pawn
  
  
• Statistics Smackdown: Experts Duel Over Vytorin Cancer Data
  
  
• Linton author writes another book, donates copy to library
  
  
• Stirring Things Up At Statscan
  
  
• Bullet analysis casts doubt on lone gunman in JFK assassination
  
  
• Return of Serve (and Volley)?
  
  

August 2008

• U.S. and China tie for Olympic glory, according to statistician
  
  
• Only Your Cardiologist Knows For Sure?
  
  
• Who Won the Olympics Forecasting Competition?
  ASA members mentioned in this Wall Street Journal blog entry.
  
  
• Another Storm Brewing For Vytorin
  
  
• Website Helps Students Rate Professors
  
  
• Many Teens Getting Free Alcohol From Adults
  
  
• Conspiracy's Days Are Numbered: Aggies Are On The JFK Case
  
  
• Study of JFK assassination bullets honored
  
  
• Titanic's Been Unsinkable...Until Dark Knight?
  
  
• UVU names statistician to top administrative post
  
  
• Warm, Rainy Weather Helps Illinois Crops
  
  
• The science of doping
  
  

July 2008

• NIH's Grant Awards System Is Prone to Bias, Report Says
  
  
• In M.L.B. Study, 257 Broken Bats . . . and Counting
  
  
• UBC experts do the math on Open winner
  
  
• Exclusive Interview: An M.I.T. And A Yale Professors' Cure For The Electoral College
  
  
• Two Iowa State faculty to be named American Statistical Association fellows
  
  
• A&M professors win national award
  
  
• Lies, Damned Lies And…
  Coverage of JSM sessions
  
  
• Juiced: Guilt by Graph?
  Newsweek blog talks about JSM sessions
  
  
• Katherine Monti Elected to the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  
  
• Statistician to tackle environmental pollution
  
  
• Mathematician Co-Authored Guide to Winning at Blackjack
  
  
• UAMS’ Roberson Selected National Institutes of Health Panel
  
  
• Report: Cotton acreage down nationally
  
  
  

June 2008

• Schafer Announces Clark as Nass Administrator
  
  
• Many Teens Getting Free Alcohol From Adults
  
  
• Hawaii heath official gets national award
  
  
• Predicting Where You'll Go and What You'll Like
  
  
• Dr. George named a fellow of the American Statistical Association
  
  
• The Pentagon's Latest Recruits: Professors
  
  
• Signifying Little
  
  
• ADA: VA Trial Assertion on Rosiglitazone (Avandia) Heart Safety Called Problematic
  
  
• Covering the Drug Policy Dilemma: Prudence for Patients vs. Risky Cures
  
  
• SAS Announces American Statistical Association Fellows
  
  
• Conference to attract statistics experts
  
  
• Minority workers face "glass door" barrier
  
  
• Harpoon: Profiling a global warming ‘denier'
  
  

May 2008

• Prof. Jon Cryer '61 Authors Second Edition of Time Series Analysis: With Applications in R
  
  
• Smith College People News: Katherine T. Halvorsen
  
  
• Zhao Named Recipient of 2008 Mortimer Spiegelman Award
  
  
• Dr. Irwin Kellner Joins Dowling College as Distinguished Scholar of Economics
  
  
• Why Benetech?
  Read more about the Benetech Human Rights Program's project helping the Guatemalan National Police Archive on PBS' 'Frontline.'
  
  
• Dr. George named a fellow of the American Statistical Association
  
  
• Karol Krotki Named American Statistical Association Fellow
  
  
• IU statistics professor earns international award
  
  
• Statistician, educator and author named honorary degree recipient
  
  
• 72 New Members Chosen by the National Academy of Sciences
  Statistician Elizabeth Thompson among the honorees.
  
  
• Dr. F.N. Kautzmann III Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive, Professional & Entrepreneurial Registry
  
  
• Why U.S. Infants Die Too Often
  
  
• AAPOR Announces Awards for Public Opinion Research Innovation and Policy Impact, Influential Book, Student Paper
  
  
• The Lady With the Lamp

April 2008

• Terrorism Study Drops a Bombshell on Boise
  
  
• PAREXEL Appoints Leading Biostatistician Dr. Imogene Grimes to Vice President of Data Sciences Strategic Services
  
  
• KePRO Appoints Two New IT Vice Presidents
  
  
• Makuch Honored as Distinguished Alumni of University of Connecticut’s Mathematics Department
  
  
• RAND Corporation Names Daniel McCaffrey as PNC Chair in Policy Analysis
  
  
• ASA Chicago Chapter Names 2008 Statistician of the Year
  
  
• How To Use W Edwards Deming
  
  
• Love baseball? Sabermetrics may be for you
  
  
• Mohsen Pourahmadi, John Skowronski awarded 2008 Presidential Research Professorships
  
  
• Study: Gender, other factors guide preemies' survival
  
  
• Joint Venture Plans to Expand Project Euclid
  
  
• Essay: Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It
  
  
• Older Americans Are More Socially Engaged Than Many People May Think
  
  
• The Noisy Game of Baseball
  
  
• The Rise & Fall of Breast Cancer
  
  
• UMBC Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards Ceremony
  
  
• De Veaux Named 2008 Statistician of the Year
  
  
• Aberdeen Four Horsemen made movie '21' possible
  
  
• The Use -- and Misuse -- of Statistics: How and Why Numbers Are So Easily Manipulated
  
  

 

March 2008

• Vulnerable to terror: NYC, New Orleans and . . . Boise?
  
  
• The Numbers Behind the "The Lost Tomb of Jesus"
  
  
• Editorial: Statistics and "The Lost Tomb of Jesus
  
  
• Taleb Outsells Greenspan as Black Swan Gives Worst Turbulence
  
  
• Genomics: Whither Goest Thou?
  
  
• Statistics professor receives award for research and teaching excellence
  
  
• HIV/AIDS Sabbatical Summary
  
  
• Better audits are sought for voting
  
  
• Panel Shoots Down Wider Ballistics Database
  
  
• Pre-eminent statistician puts knowledge to use at ASU
  
  
• Dr. David Banks isKey Presenter at Troy University’s Computer Science Colloquium on Information Technology
  
  
• Global warming pioneer's job threatened

February 2008

• The Forensic Humanitarian
  
  
• Tucson: pretty good place to be in a terror strike
  
  
• 2 faculty named Sloan fellows
  
  
• Swarthmore College Statistician Uses Data to Analyze Major League Baseball Managers; Uses Stats to Describe Managers as They Do Players
  
  
• They wrote the first blackjack book, but never cashed in
  
  
• They invented basic strategy
  
  
• AGB Neilsen Makes Calculation Error
  AGB Neilsen has admitted that it made a mistake and it says that from now on it will hire a statistician to vet data on a daily basis.
  
  
• Retired city statistician Don Vest had all the numbers
  
  
• Black Swans swim against current
  
  
• Jantzi replaces Knopf at USDA
  
  
• A few less surveys, a few more poems
  
  
• Making statistics not just palatable, but delicious
  
  
• Is Value Line showing the door to its hidden genius?
  Commentary: Statistician Sam Eisenstadt has been dropped from the board
  
  
• Black Swans swim against current
  
  
• A few less surveys, a few more poems
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon Professor William Eddy Receives
  First John C. Warner Professorship of Statistics
  
  
• A statistician's guide to romance
• Veteran Suicides: How We Got The Numbers
  How The CBS News Investigative Unit Got The Statistics And The Story
  
  
• A human rights statistician finds truth in numbers
  
  
• Interview with Mohamed Ali on violence-related mortality among Iraqi civilians
  
  
• Linear Models in Statistics 2nd Edition' is the Essential Introduction to the Theory and Application of Linear Models
  
  

January 2008

• Statistician's new method will test election outcomes
  
  
• Francis X. Diebold: Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics
  
  
• Case Western Reserve School of Medicine Professor receives Genetics Education Excellence Award
  
  
• Data mining has many uses: professor
  
  
• Pesticides? Well, they're not so bad
  
  
• Study shows eBay buyers save billions of dollars
  
  
• Trustees name three faculty Distinguished Professors
  
  
• Meld of grace, athletics, dreams keeps ice skating fans on edge
  
  
• New computer programme for health statistics
  
  
• Google lets scientists share data
  
  
• Women Becoming More Like Men In Their Drinking Habits
  
  
• Benefits trump risks of Entereg bowel drug - panel
  
  
• CourseAdvisor Increases Data Analysis Capabilities:
  Former BBN Technologies Statistician Brings Extensive Experience Analyzing and Modeling Customer Data and Interactions
  
  
• Albert Bowker, innovative UC Berkeley chancellor during 1970s, dies at age 88
  
  
• Edward Clark Bryant, Westat Co-founder, dies at 92
  
  
• Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It
  
  
• You're safer than you think, statistics expert says
  
  
• Ex-IC chief lodges ‘scapegoat’ claim
  
  
• Strategic market research partner to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
  industries strengthens specialist expertise
  
  
• Prof. Elaine Allen Appointed Chair Of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
  Research Committee
  
  
• Cut off francophone life-support: statistician
  Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
  For the past decade, statistician Charles Castonguay has been predicting the demise of
  francophone communities outside Quebec.
  
  
• UC Santa Cruz's 'cookie monster' professor teaches statistics with chocolate chips
  When it comes to keeping students engaged in learning statistics, Herbie Lee is one smart cookie.