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Ars Technica: We're So Good at Medical Studies that Most of them are Wrong

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Stan Young, Assistant Director, Bioinformatics at NISS, was part of a panel that spoke at the AAAS conference in San Diego in February 2010. This article describes that most times, epidemiology studies have problems with statistics. The author of this article  from Ars Technica believes that... more

Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality Publishes Papers Presented at NISS Workshop: Data Confidentiality - the Next Five Years

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The electronic Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality (JPC) has just released its second issue. This issue was assembled by three guest editors:  Satkartar K. Kinney, Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., mathematical statistician... more

Hailin Sang Appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences

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Hailin Sang has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). NISS is a research institute created by the statistical professional societies with support from a consortium of North Carolina universities. Sang will join one of three teams at NISS... more

David Yang Joins NISS as Research Associate to Work on Projects for NCES

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) is happy to announce that David Yang has joined its staff as the Research Associate to work with the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI). ESSI provides technical expertise to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the... more

Three Interns Share Insights from NISS-NASS Projects

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This article shares insights from three interns that were involved with the NISS-NASS research in residence program. The article was published in AmStat News December 2009 issue. You can find the article starting on page 49.

How the Temperature Data Was Analyzed

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The Associated Press sought independent statistical analyses of global temperatures to determine if there is a true cooling of Earth's climate.Alan Karr, director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, is quoted in the article. Many newspapers printed the story, including the New York... more

Bell and Volinsky Part of AT&T Team that Won $1Million from Netflix Prize contest

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Congratulations to Bob Bell and Chris Volinsky from AT&T, one of NISS' affiliates, who are part of the team that won the $1M Grand Prize from the Netflix Prize contest. They won the prize for devising the best way for Netflix to improve its movie recommendation algorithm, which generates an... more

News & Observer: Science Institute gets federal dollars

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This article is about NISS helping to develop Bayesian models for syndromic surveillance so that health officials can detect an onset of a disease breakout or a bioterrorism attack a little earlier than they have in the past. This article was posted August 24, 2009.  more

NISS to Work on Syndromic Surveillance Project for NSF and DTRA

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) have awarded $664,019 to the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) for collaborative research to develop Bayesian methods for syndromic surveillance. The research focuses on use of conditionally auto... more

Current and Former NISS Board Members win 2009 ASA Founders Awards

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Congratulations to former NISS Board of Trustees members Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Bob Rodriguez, SAS Institute and current Vice-Chair of the NISS Board of Trustees, Jessica Utts, University of California, Irvine, for receiving a 2009 American Statistical Association (ASA)... more

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