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Academic Career Paths Explored During NISS Career Fair

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On Thursday April 23rd three distinguished professors of statistics shared their experiences and provided advice about what life is like as a statistician at different academic institutions. Williams College, a liberal arts college, is located in the very northwest corner of Massachusetts.... more

Career Paths Highlighted in Three Health Related Government Agencies

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On Wednesday, March 11 three senior statisticians, Simone Gray from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Sylva Collins from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Paul Albert from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) talked... more

Advice and Insights Offered During Third NISS Industry Career Fair

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On February 19, 2020 NISS hosted a “Third Industry Career Fair”.  This time the senior statisticians were gathered from Amazon (Ming Li (second from left), Research Scientist), AT&T (Subho Majumdar, Senior Inventive Scientist, Data Science & AI Research), Medtronic (... more

Affiliate News of Note!

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Phil Kott, long time active NISS affiliate member has just had the book Better Coverage Intervals for Estimators from a Complex Sample Survey published through RTI Press.   Congratulations Phil!   This book extends his ideas about coverage (confidence) intervals for... more

NISS Post-Doctoral Research Experiences Launch Careers in Statistics

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A postdoctoral appointment gives you the opportunity to build a solid foundation and it also gives you a chance to explore, listen and learn. All of this involves hard work but the experience is worth it say former NISS postdocs.  Here are the comments from a few whose career started out at at... more

Collaboration Between Academia and Industry the Focus of Academic Affiliate Meet-Up

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On Friday, February 7, 2020 NISS gathered a number of experienced, leading statisticians that represented a variety of differing perspectives to talk about the challenges and issues that arise in research projects that involve a collaboration between academia and industry. ... more

Recent Approaches to Adaptive Trials for Drug Development the Focus of NISS/Merck Meet-Up

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Vladimir Dragalin (Janssen), QiQi Deng (Boehringer-Ingelheim) and Scott Berry (Berry Consultants) were the presenters for a balanced view of the benefits and ongoing issues of concern related to adaptive designs to an audience of over 200. Adaptive... more

NISS Government Career Fair Outlines Opportunities for Statisticians!

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Being an independent partner is essential for statisticians working within one of the thirteen principle government statistical agencies.  This was one of the remarks that Wendy Martinez, (Director of the Mathematical Statistics Research Center, Office of Survey Methods... more

Opportunities in Banking & Marketing Sectors Highlighted in Virtual Career Fair

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) has a mission to promote collaborations across different disciplines. As a means of fulfilling this mission, on September 26, 2019, NISS sponsored its first virtual career fair, featuring career opportunities at Google,... more

Popular R & Spark Workshop Engages DC Area Statisticians

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NISS Targets Training for Government Affiliates Statisticians from the Washington, DC area got together at the Bureau of Labor Statistics conference and training center November 25 and 26 for the popular R & Spark course.  Once again presented in a two-day workshop, this time with... more

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