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NISS Graduate Student Network Launched

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Calling All Graduate Students! Given the travel restrictions and social distancing that is applied to all things community, NISS is reaching out to all graduate students from NISS Affiliate departments as a means to help correct this imbalance.  An executive committee has been meeting since... more

Meet New NISS Associate Director Brian Habing!

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Brian Habing recently joined the NISS family as Associate Director for Education Activities and Research.  His research focuses on psychometrics and scale construction, with a particular emphasis on multidimensional item response theory.  He is also interested in statistical education,... more

Ingram Olkin Forums Update

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To honor the work and actions of the late Ingram Olkin, an eminent statistician, mentor and contributor to social causes, NISS brings together experts and researchers together from a variety of fields and backgrounds into forums.  The focus of these forums is to bring forward a current... more

Predictive Analytic Tools Featured as Part of Third Data Science Tutorial

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Yanling Zuo (Minitab Statistical Software LLC) led the third of ten tutorials scheduled as part of the NISS Essential Data Science for Business series.  Her tutorial session was titled, “Decision Trees, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, and Random Forests: Powerful Predictive Analytics Tools... more

Second Data Science Tutorial Focuses on Data Visualization Led by Lee Wilkinson

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October 21, 2020 Lee Wilkinson (H2O, and University of Illinois at Chicago) led the second of ten tutorials scheduled as part of the NISS Essential Data Science for Business series - the Top 10 analytics key topics that are used in business today!  Students and faculty please note: these... more

Statisticians Debate Issues Central to Inference and Estimation

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The Statistics Debate event was held in a well-structured debate format. While the participants were given selected questions ahead of time so they had a chance to think about their responses, the group opted not to have a practice, so their reactions to each other were extemporaneous and... more

NISS Writing Workshop Featured in AMSTAT News!

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) has been hosting the Writing Workshop for Early Researchers since 2007. This year was no different, right? Well, ... yes, and no.   Yes - this workshop was the same valuable experience! Each year, in conjunction with JSM, NISS... more

Jim Harner Leads First Session Loaded with Methods and Examples Describing Data Science Workflows

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October 7, 2020 This was the first of ten tutorials in the NISS Essential Data Science for Business series - the Top 10 analytics approaches of the key topics that are used in business today!  Students and faculty please note: these are perhaps the top ten most important and practical... more

Insights Shared Regarding Algorithmic Fairness in Social Contexts

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September 25, 2020 Ingram Olkin advocated innovations in statistical methodology and data science that would promote new research and collaborations that would bring awareness to social issues and inform public policy.  This session fits firmly within this purpose! We all routinely... more

NISS/Merck Meetup Reviews the Challenges and Potential in Vaccine Development

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It took until the end of the webinar.  But someone finally asked the question that was probably on the minds of every one of the 250+ attendees at this meetup (and perhaps on the minds of countless more around the world!) “When are we going to have a safe and effective vaccine?” Yes,... more

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