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NISS Elects New Board Members

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) named Mary Batcher, Ernst & Young, and Robert Rodriguez from SAS Institute to the Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2013. Karen Kafadar, Indiana University and Fritz Scheuren, NORC at the University of Chicago, were... more

NISS Associate Director and Trustees Named AAAS Fellows

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December 13, 2012, Washington D.C - Nell Sedransk, Associate Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Also elected were two members of the NISS Board of Trustees: Karen Kafadar,... more

William Q. Meeker Receives the 2012 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) has presented the 2012 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to Dr. William Q. Meeker, Iowa State University. Susan Ellenberg, chair of the Board of Trustees, announced the award at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego,... more

Landwehr and Young Receive the 2012 NISS Distinguished Service Awards

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James Landwehr and Linda Young are this year's recipients of the Distinguished Service Awards from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The awards were presented by NISS director Alan Karr at the NISS/SAMSI reception at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, California... more

Yili Hong Awarded 2012 y-BIS Best Paper Award

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Yili Hong, Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, received this year’s Young Statisticians in Business and Industry (y-BIS) Award. The award recognizes the best paper, based on both content and delivery, presented by an early career researcher at the International... more

Wall Street Journal - "Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists"

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Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists - Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2012S. Stanley Young, Associate Director of Bioinformatics at NISS, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article about observational studies. Researchers like to conduct observational studies because they are less expensive and... more

NISS Receives Five-Year Grant from NSF for Triangle Census Research Network

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and Duke University received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Census Bureau  for the Triangle Census Research Network (TCRN).  The award, one of eight nationwide under the NSF-Census Research Nodes... more

In article in Significance Magazine, Young and Karr Propose Ways to Improve How Observational Studies are Conducted

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S. Stanley Young, assistant director for bioinformatics at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), and Alan Karr, director at NISS, have published a non-technical article in the September issue of Significance magazine pointing out that medical and other observational studies often... more

Lawrence Cox, Alan Karr and Satkartar Kinney Publish paper in International Statistical Review

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Lawrence Cox, Alan Karr and Satkartar Kinney have just published a paper entitled "Risk-Utility Paradigms for Statistical Disclosure Limitation: How to Think, But Not How to Act" in the International Statistical Review, the flagship journal of the International Statistical... more

UNC BIOS Department Wins "Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics" Video Competition from ASA

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The Public Awareness Group of the American Statistical Association awarded University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill BIOS Department as one of the winners in the "Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics" video competition. The awards were presented at JSM in Miami.A link to the video... more

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