The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) presents Statistics Serving Society, a series of forums to honor the memory of Professor Ingram Olkin. Each forum focuses on a current societal issue that might benefit from new or renewed attention from the statistical community. The S3 Forums aim to bring the latest innovations in statistical methodology and data science into new research and public policy collaborations, working to accelerate the development of innovative approaches that impact societal problems. As the Forum will be the first time a particular group of experts will be gathered together to consider an issue, new energy and synergy is expected to produce a flurry of new ideas and approaches.
Goals for the S3 Forums include:
- Providing statisticians with an understanding of the societal problems and stimulating their interest in working on related statistical issues.
- Developing an agenda of statistical action items that are needed to better inform public policy and to generate reliable evidence that can be used to mitigate the problem. For example, action items might focus on data availability, data collection methods, causal inference, data science, designed and natural experiments, quality control, trend assessments, and the evaluation of preventative and restorative initiatives.
- Leading to new collaborations among statisticians and those working to understand and mitigate the problem.
- Leading to funded grant proposals that works to bring the detailed action items to life.
S3 Forums are intended to be participatory. In every forum, all participants will have a role such as discussant, moderator, recorder or note taker. There will be discussion time at each session and roundtable discussions at the end of each day, and a final time before the forum closes for reporting, syntheses, and writing.
S3 Forum Coverage & Materials
Ingram Olkin Forum Series: The Opioid Crisis
May 4, 2021 - more event information coming soon!
Ingram Olkin Forum Series: COVID and the Schools: Modeling Openings, Closings, and Learning Loss
December 16, 2020 - (see event page)
Ingram Olkin Forum Series: Algorithmic Fairness and Social Justice
September 25, 2020 - News Report: "Insights Shared Regarding Algorithmic Fairness in Social Contexts"
Ingram Olkin Forum Series: Unplanned Clinical Trial Disruptions
Day Six: Adaptive Designs: Sample Size Recalculation (Date to be announced!)
Day Five: Adaptive Designs: Early Stopping (Mid-November, 2020 - check back for details!)
Day Four: News Report: "Guidance Provided on the Role of Randomization Tests During Day 4 of Ingram Olkin Forum Series on Unplanned Disruptions" (September 15, 2020)
Day Three: News Report: "Ingram Olkin Forum Series Investigates the Role of Estimands and Missing Data" (September 1, 2020)
Register your Interest in Participating in Unplanned Clinical Trial Disruption Days 3-6
Day Two: News Report: "Day Two of Ingram Olkin Forum Reveals New Statistical Challenges for Mediating Disrupted Trials", (July 28, 2020)
Day One: News Report: "Ingram Olkin Forum Features Examples/Advice Regarding Unplanned Disruptions of Clinical Trials", (July 21, 2020)
Inaugural Ingram Olkin S3 Forum: Gun Violence - The Statistical Issues
News Report: "Statisticians Focus on Data Related to Gun Violence at Inaugural Ingram Olkin Forum", (June 2019)
White Paper: "A Call for Statisticians to Engage in Gun Violence Research" (Ridgeway, Greg, Rosenberger, James and Xue, Lingzhou - October, 2020)