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2014 Affiliates Meeting in Baltimore, MD a Success

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The NISS and SAMSI affiliates meeting held March 16 in Baltimore was a great success!  The meeting highlighted two hard problems: A Cross-Sector High-impact Project and A Cross-Sector Research Opportunity. The afternoon discussion was about how to become a leader in the profession. Senior... more

From Harvard Business Review: When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

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This blog from Harvard Business Review mentions the article that Stanley S. Young and Alan Karr wrote for Significance magazine.http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/when-research-should-come-with-a-warning-label/

Forbes Editorial: The Trouble With 'Scientific' Research Today: A Lot That's Published Is Junk

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An editorial was published in Forbes Magazine January 8, 2014 by Henry I. Miller and S. Stanley Young about the current state of science methodology.

From Forbes: What is Really at Stake in the Republican Party's Supoena of EPA Data

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An article in Forbes Magazine talks about how fine particle air pollution may not be linked to mortality. Dr. S. Stanley Young and Dr. Jessie Xia of NISS' article, "Assessing geographic heterogeneity and variable importance in an air pollution data set" from Statistical Analysis and Data Mining are... more

From AmStat News: Post-Doctoral Positions: A Path from Graduate School to Career

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Making the transition between graduate school and a new career can be daunting. Academia guides people each step of the way, checking a person’s work and telling them what to do and how to think about a particular topic, but life outside of the classroom is different. Read more here about George... more

Sally Morton and Tom Gerig Bestowed the 2013 NISS Distinguished Service Awards

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Sally Morton and Thomas Gerig received the 2013 NISS Distinguished Service Awards, which were presented by Alan Karr, Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) on August 5, 2013. The awards were given at the NISS/SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute... more

Kenneth P. Burnham selected as the 2013 Sacks Award winner

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Kenneth P Burnham was selected as the 2013 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research. The award was announced at the 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal, Canada. The annual award, named in honor of Jerome (Jerry) Sacks, the founding director of NISS, was established in 2000 to... more

Air Pollution Effects Measured by PM2.5 Not Consistent Across United States

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S. Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics for the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), and Jessie Q. Xia, former NISS postdoctoral fellow, report on the re-analysis of a data set used in a 2009 New England Journal of Medicine paper by C. Arden Pope, III, and co-authors.... more

Forbes article - BPA and Breast Cancer: When Academics Spin Statistics

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Dr. Stan Young, Assistant Director for Bioinformatics at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, was quoted in an article in Forbes magazine, "BPA and Breast Cancer: When Academics Spin Statistics." Read the article here.

Does diet soda actually make you gain weight?

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Stanley Young, assistant director of bioinformatics at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, was recently quoted in an article, "Does diet soda actually make you gain weight?" appearing in The Week talking about some of the problems that may arise using observational studies. Read the... more

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