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With environmental statistics becoming more visible in the news, it has become more politicized, which makes it harder for the public to both understand and interpret all the different results that are being published. NISS provided a multi-disciplinary team that would act as a non-biased, third party analyzing the data to help the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with its complex datasets and models.
Research Project
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) charged this Expert Panel to review NCES progress and changes over the decades since the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued its report on NCES, “Creating a center for education statistics: A time for action,” in 1986, and to consider challenges and priorities for the future. The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) assembled a panel consisting of academic, government, and private-sector experts from the fields of statistics and of education. Panelists were chosen because of their experience as both users and providers of education data, and their understanding of federal statistical operations, purposes, policies, and constraints. The Expert Panel drew on materials assembled from public sources, including federal directives, NCES documentation, presentations by NCES administrators and senior staff, and summaries of interviews NISS conducted with NCES personnel from the level of team leader to Commissioner.
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Ingram Olkin (1924-2016) was a principal founder of NISS and an internationally prominent statistician whose work stressed the importance of statistical thinking in studying major societal problems. Ingram was also admired for his inclusive mentoring approaches with junior researchers which... more
There were 24 statistics junior researchers who traveled to Denver for JSM 2019. The common thread among these individuals is that they are all at the beginning of their careers in statistics. While it might not have been the first time they attended JSM, it was perhaps the most memorable event... more
The annual NISS Reception is traditionally held at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) each year. It is a great time to visit with colleagues that you might not have seen in a while and get that personal update. In addition, it is also a time where new connections are made and new friendships... more
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SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence...
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro offers a variety of outstanding...
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the survey and estimation arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. NASS...