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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 2009

• Fool’s errand gold



• Immigration, economy affecting number of births in Arizona



• Unemployment rate dips



• Are New TSA In-Flight Restrictions Pointless?



• Book ranks Florida Marlins 15th among top trading teams



• Roger Babson and His Principles



• Statistical Model To Assess Risks In Vascular Surgery



• More than 50% of 2004 foreign workers have left



• Henry County Among Illinois' Leading Christmas Tree Growers



• International Biometric Society co-publishes journal with Springer



• Nicholas Kristof: STATS winner of the worst “science” journalist of the year



• CT joblessness falls to 8.2 percent



• Darts for Geeks: Statistician Cracks the Game’s Secrets



• Life Expectancy in U.S. Hits New High



• Is the Recession Over? The Debate Continues



• How Dems Could Finally Kill the Filibuster



• Context for 'hide the decline' discovered



• Pioneer statistician



• Remembering Samuelson, Who Forever Fused Economics with Math



• Mammogram Math



• Sgouros Announces For Treasurer!



• Department of Justice Statisticians to Discuss Domestic Violence Case Processing, Present Findings of Bureau's Report



• Crops Remain in Fields in Illinois



• FDA panel backs new use for AstraZeneca's Crestor



• Texas cuts costs amid prison reform



• State Board: Diesel Emissions Report Author Lied About Credentials



• Chemo plus tamoxifen beneficial for some breast cancer patients



• New Orleans Mayoral Race: Qualifying, Mitch Landrieu Factor, Political Games



• Tenn. crop harvest nearly done in 'decent year'



• Edmunds.com Forecasts 2010 Automotive Trends



• FG designs five-year statistical development plan



• Value Line fires its legendary investment brain



• Pechstein's doping conviction based on 'deceit'



• College Students Urged To Get Swine Flu Vaccine



• Cloud over climate summit (video clip)



• Banking on Chelsea



• Barbara Hollingsworth: Who's who on climate fraud



• When Combined Data Reveal the Flaw of Averages



• Swine Flu ‘Window of Opportunity’ Opens for Vaccine



• Rate of Confirmed AIDS in Prison 2.5 Times the Rate in the U.S. General Population



• The Man Who Turned Darwin Into a Determinist



• Statistics and Malcolm Gladwell
  Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1931100,00.html?xid=rss-arts#ixzz0YTmcwrN6

November 2009

• Food stamps estimate raises debate over 'poverty'



• Italy’s Top Statistician Has Higher Salary Than Bernanke, Obama



• Under heat, climate-change contrarian won't wilt



• Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation



• 7-year-old places second in national poster competition



• Surgeon, pilot and Realtor top CareerCast's most-stressful jobs list



• Breast Cancer: To Screen or Not to Screen



• Darts for Geeks: Statistician Cracks the Game's Secrets



• Robert B. Gerbing Honored by Cambridge Who's Who



• Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education (video)



• Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician



• Cochran at 100



• Weak home building a drag on economic recovery



• Answering The Vytorin Question



• The Senate’s Health Care Calculations



• What's So Great About Punting?



• Panel Urges Mammograms at 50, Not 40



• Child Food Allergies on the Rise in U.S.



• A Hint of Hype, A Taste of Illusion



• Repros Appoints Dr. Jaye Thompson to Board of Directors



• Statistical Time Travel Helps to Answer What-Ifs



• If Statisticians Could Turn Back Time



• Baby Boomers by the numbers: Census reveals trends



• Asia-Pacific statisticians discuss ways to improve data flow



• The wizards behind those amazing World Series statistics



• Modeling Your Way To Better Campaign Results



• New Research on Spanking Might Need a Time Out



• Obama Names Justice Statistics Nominee

October 2009

• AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling
  See also: How temperature data was analyzed



• Producer criticizes NASS reporting



• Science for Science Writers
  (Scroll down to "In election controversies..")



• Taleb: The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics



• New Math – New Yorker Panel



• Anti-smoking laws reduce heart attacks, report finds



• The Count: A Very Unlucky Nats Fan



• Georgia Southern Faculty Member Karl Peace, Ph.D. Honored On U.S. House Floor



• New Research on Spanking Might Need a Time Out



• Get ready for Statistics Day number one



• Opportunities are Adding up for Statisticians



• National Statistics Day aims to enlighten us



• Oct. 22 lecture to explain statistical method for ecology research



• UMass gains $1M NIH grant for exercise study



• $2M in grants for forensic science study



• Number Crunchers



• 2010 Census: Politics Counts, Especially in Wake of Acorn Scandal



• Celebrate the history of statistics: Drink a Guiness



• BYU statistics professor receives national honor



• Politics are threatening to complicate census



• Nate Silver challenges climate change skeptics over temperature cherry-picking



• Statistician Nate Silver believes Maine gay marriage ban will fail

September 2009

• As Communist China Turns Sixty, Her Statisticians Turn to Poetry



• Michael P. O'Brien Joins the Ranks of Leading Professionals



• Statistician Introduces Maximum Weight Limit Calculation



• Odds Are, Stunning Coincidences Can Be Expected



• Hurricanes Up In Number, Not Strength



• Billionaire SAS co-founder keeps on coding



• Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest



• How Stanford professor is righting statistical wrongs



• Uncertain Future Predicted For Forests



• Bio-Math seminar- statistics



• Should Companies Worry About Analytics Skills Shortage?



• Road to be named after Prof. C.R. Rao



• Sam L. Savage on "The Flaw of Averages"—Why we underestimate risk in the face of certainty



• Edmunds.com Tallies "Cash for Clunkers" Numbers; Uncovers Another Discrepancy



• U.S. government paid teenagers to answer questionnaire about sexual behaviour



• Thoroughly Modern Melanie



• Edmunds.com Tallies "Cash for Clunkers" Numbers; Uncovers Another Discrepancy



• Cool, Wet Weather Creating Problems in Soybean Fields

August 2009

• Videos that Play with Numbers, Dangerously



• Jobs abound for statistics majors



• Childhood diabetes 'more likely in winter'



• Taiwan's orders from China rise for first time in a year



• Use free statistics to boost business



• Numbers, Numbers, Numbers



• Edward Tufte's On The Very Very Very Bad Design Of Corporate Web Sites



• Finalists named in UGA provost search



• The Deming Cycle: an application to web design



• Statistics: desired and feared?



• Your statistics are turning me on



• People in the News – Rafael Irizarry



• Baseball by the numbers



• Today's Sexy Job: Statistician



• Math Nerds Getting Richer, Sexier



• For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics

July 2009

• Remembering Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis



• Nate Silver challenges climate change skeptics over temperature cherry-picking



• Maybe Children Aren’t Getting Fatter



• The Slimming Figures of Childhood Obesity



• Encounter with Number Vortex Earns Econometrics Prize



• The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)
  more details: http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/



• Statistical Tests Suggestive of Fraud in Iran's Election



• Baseball’s Winning Glue Guys



• Palo Alto VA scientist wins presidential award



• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071300740.html



• Prominent Bioinformatics Expert To Join Harvard School Of Public Health Faculty And Become Chair Of Dana-Farber Department Of Biostatistics



• NCTM President-Elect Shaughnessy and Four Board Members Begin Terms



• Researchers Say They Can Guess Your SSN



• Obese Account for Greatest Jump in Healthcare Spending



• Study Shows What Everyone Knew Already



• This stats spat will run and run (probably)



• Awards for Distinguished Service to the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries



• The Lasting Political Legacies Of Robert McNamara

June 2009

• New book applies Lean Six Sigma to all business areas



• New Czech premier is a statistically significant man



• Tufte's Invisible Yet Ubiquitous Influence



• Stefanski named Drexel Professor at NC State



• The New Ombudsman of U.K. Stats



• This U.K. Sheriff Cites Officials for Serious Statistical Violations



• Hurricane predictions more math than science

May 2009

• From Stats-Man to Editor



• James Nwoye Adichie: Nigeria's first professor of statistics



• Memorization doesn’t teach problem-solving skills



• Top Ky. statistician to leave state data center



• Stats funds to make light polls shine



• HSE announces appointment of new Chief Statistician



• Sampling ruled out in 2010 census



• Scientist wins highest award, will speak in D.C



• Using Statistics to Drive Sound Policy



• A Pandemic of Confusion About Flu's Death Rates



• Western Illinois Farmers Having Trouble Planting Corn



• Stats Whiz Takes Crack at Explaining Why Americans Are Driving Less



• 34th Annual Summer Institute of Applied Statistics at BYU June 17-19



• OSU scientist wins top statistics prize



• YSPH Student Receives Cox Scholarship for Women in Statistics



• Statistician Thinks 2010 Census Could Benefit Kentucky



• Malthouse Receives Walder Award for Research Excellence

April 2009

• Dr. Robert F. Engle to Receive Hofstra University's Presidential Medal



• Expert Tip Sheet: Swine Flu: Statistical Model Predicts Spread in U.S.



• Climate Research That Might Not Help



• Statistical analysis could yield new drug target for MS



• Overpaying mortgages 'presents an opportunity'



• Grading Facebook's Grades Link



• Khinkis To Serve As Interim Arts & Sciences Dean



• Red State, Blue State



• Defining Moment: British scientists conduct the first randomized clinical trial, 1948



• Statistician doubts Manitoba jobless figure



• Statistician Jan Fischer to be new Czech prime minister



• Peter C.B. Phillips: 04-07-09 Economist of the Day



• ASTM International Statistics Committee Recognizes Stephen Luko with Award of Merit



• U.S. Still Struggling With Infant Mortality



• Statistician has numbers in new book to prove how moving Inge back to 3B will help Tigers



• Nebraska Professor Talks Sex Appeal Science With Oprah



• Carnegie Mellon statistics student honored for technique to aid in brain imaging



• Professor Chris P. Tsokos Elected New IFNA President



• Bandeen-Roche Installed as Hurley and Dorrier Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics



• Transportation and Education Depts., Census Bureau, Get Key Nominees



• Obama picks survey expert to lead Census Bureau

March 2009

• Bayes and Business Intelligence, Part 3 An Interview with Brad Efron of Stanford
  
  
• Dendreon Disclosure May Endanger Provenge Study



• Professor Chris P. Tsokos elected new IFNA president



• Harvard Statistician To Receive Inaugural Award



• Crash Calculations



• The Odds When Birds, Subs and Satellites Collide



• The sinister world of statistics

February 2009

• E-voting security fixes will get us nowhere without stats



• Ace statistician goes four-for-six with Oscar picks



• StatsCan, Canada Post set example



• Oscar Predictions You Can Bet On!



• Nate Silver predicts an Oscar upset



• Darwin: The reluctant mathematician



• Fat Tail



• Thomas D. Murphy Receives ASTM International Frank W. Reinhart Award

January 2009

• Measuring Race in Multicultural America the Focus of Pitt Lecture



• What should an introduction to statistics be like?



• Life is filled with patterned uncertainties



• Researchers identify 4 genetic hotspots associated with psoriasis



• Fixing the Census



• Does Bran Make the Man? What Statistics Really Tell Us



• Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University



• Studying Stats



• Nobel Laureate Robert Engle and Peter Westfall comment on Nassim Taleb’s “Black Swan



• Software Called R Empowers Data Users



• Friday Fun: How Does Your Job Compare?



• Today in History (Jan. 8)



• STATKING Consulting Announces Hiring of Hussein Al-Khalidi, PhD as Director of Biostatistics



• Thomas C. Stanek, Jr., Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive, Professional and Entrepreneurial Registry



• Bayes and Business Intelligence, Part 1



• Other Voices: Crisis focus is on panic solutions, ignoring adequate demand