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WSS NEWS--News about activities of the Washington Statistical Society - a Chapter of the American Statistical Association
February 1997
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WSS NEWS |
WSS NEWS--News about activities of the Washington Statistical Society - a Chapter of the American Statistical Association
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Nominations are sought for the 1997 Roger Herriot Award for Innovations in Federal Statistics.
After the unexpected death in May, 1994 of Roger Herriot, an Associate Commissioner for Statistical Standards and Methodology at the National Center for Educational Statistics, the Washington Statistical Society, the Social Statistics and Government Statistics Sections of the American Statistical Association established an award in his memory to recognize individuals who develop unique approaches to the solution of statistical problems in federal data collection programs.
The award is intended to reflect the special characteristics that marked Roger Herriot's career:
The recipient of the 1997 Roger Herriot Award will be chosen by a committee of representatives of the Social Statistics Section and Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association and a representative of the Washington Statistical Society. Roger Herriot was associated with and strongly supportive of these organizations during his career. The award consists of an honorium of $500 and a framed citation.
A nomination form can be obtained by contacting Daniel Kasprzyk at 202-219-1588, 202-219-1325 (fax), or e-mail Daniel_Kasprzyk@ed.gov. All nomination forms should be returned to the Roger Herriot Award Committee c/o Daniel Kasprzyk, 4906 Colonel Contee Place, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-2875.
Completed nomination forms must be recieved by May 12, 1997.
WSS now distributes the newsletter electronically to over 25% of our membership, including reminders and notices of interesting statistical events in the Washington area. WSS also saves printing and postage, since we don't need to send a paper copy to the electronic folks. Please switch to the electronic distribution if you are able. If you would like to receive the newsletter by email, please send a note to Vince Massimini (svm@mitre.org) listing your name, organization, and internet email address. If you are an ASA member, it would help if you could include your ASA number.
The newsletter can also be viewed as a part of the WSS WWW page, or can be downloaded in Adobe format to be read or printed. This is in addition to the usual employment, seminars, and other useful information. The WSS WWW page is at URL http://www.scs.gmu.edu/wss/ if you would like to give it a try.
Also, if your email address has changed, please let Vince know. Your messages may be bouncing and he can't get them to you. The following folks are 'lost' in the internet now. If you know these folks, please have them send a note to Vince Massimini (svm@mitre.org), or send Vince a note directly with a phone or email address. I have included the name and last known email address.
SIGSTAT is the Special Interest Group in Statistics for the Capital PC User Group (CPCUG) and WORMSC, Washington Operations Research and Management Science Council. All meetings are from 12:30 - 1:30 in Room 1208, 1301 New York Ave, NW. First-time attendees should contact Charlie Hallahan at 202-501-6928 or hallahan@econ.ag.gov. Further information is at http://www.ers.usda.govsigstat or the Members/Sigs page of http://www.cpcug.org.
February 12, 1997: S+SpatialStats is a comprehensive, object-oriented software package for the analysis of spatial data. It runs under the S+ statistical package and provides a set of analysis tools created specifically for the exploration and modelling of spatially correlated data. Online information for S+SpatialStats is available at http://www.mathsoft.com.
March 12, 1997: MathCad 6.0 for Windows combines numeric and symbolic calculations, graphic and visualization tools, functions for statistical and data analysis, differential equations and advanced matrix operations, as well as WYSIWIG document preparation. Online information for Mathcad 6.0 is available at http://www.mathsoft.com.
President Past President
Phillip Kott (703) 235-5211 Ron Fecso (703) 235-5211
ext. 102 ext. 142
President-Elect
Graham Kalton (301) 251-8253
Secretary Treasurer
Elizabeth Sweet (301) 457-4865 Carolyn Shettle (703) 306-1780
WSS Program Chairs
Agriculture & Natural Resources Economics
Mike Steiner (202) 690-2486 Linda Atkinson (202) 219-0934
Robert Latta (202) 586-1385 Art Kennickell (202) 452-2247
Methodology Public Health and Biostatistics
Julia Bienias (301) 457-2696 Vance Berger (301) 594-5756
Karol Krotki (202) 944-5243 Julie Legler (301) 493-6832
Public Policy Quality Assurance
Carolee Bush (202) 366-6946 Harold Johnson (202) 606-7758
Phil Ross (202) 260-5244 Amrut Champaneri (202) 268-2299
Paul L. Zador (301) 294-2825
Social & Demographic Statistics Statistical Computing
Michael Horrigan (202) 606-5905 Bob Jernigan (202) 885-3170
Myron Katzoff (703) 670-8917 Mike Fleming (703) 235-5213
ext. 170
Short Courses Data Collection Methods
Fritz Scheuren (703) 549-1120 Brad Edwards (301) 294-2021
Linda Stinson (202) 606-7528
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Employment
Bill Arends (202) 720-6812
WSS NEWS Editors
Mike Feil (301) 443-1330
Fran Chevarley (301) 436-7093
ext. 153
Membership
Antionette Martin (202) 426-1110
Renee Miller (202) 426-1117
Fritz Scheuren (703) 549-1120
Videotapes
Mel Kollander (202) 973-2820
Quantitative Literacy
Shail Butani (202) 606-6347
Local Arrangement
Robie Sangster (202) 606-7517