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News about activities of the Washington Statistical Society
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March 1999

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Contents:

• Herriot Award Nominations Sought
• 1999 FCSM Research Conference -- November 15-17, 1999
• Sample Size and Power Determination for Study Planning and Equivalence Testing: Planning and Analyzing Non-Inferiority and Bioequivalence Trials
• SIGSTAT Schedule - March and April 1999
• Employment Opportunities
• Courses
• Seminars
• Area Meetings and Courses (Adobe Acrobat PDF file)
• Note From The WSS NEWS Editor
• WSS People

Herriot Award Nominations Sought

After the sudden death in May, 1994 of Roger Herriot, an Associate Commissioner for Statistical Standards and Methodology at the National Center for Education 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:

• Dedication to the issues of measurement
• Improvements in the efficiency of data collection programs; and
• Improvements and use of statistical data for policy analysis.

The award is not restricted to senior members of an organization; nor is it to be considered as a culmination of along period of service. Individuals at all levels, from entry to senior, federal employees, private sector employees, or employees of the academic community, may be nominated on the basis of the significance of the specific contribution.

The recipient of the 1999 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.

Joseph Waksberg (Westat), Monroe Sirken (National Center for Health Statistics), Constance Citro (National Academy of Sciences), Roderick Harrison (U.S. Bureau of the Census), and Clyde Tucker (Bureau of Labor Statistics) are previous recipients of the Herriot Award.

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 received by May 14, 1999.

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1999 FCSM Research Conference
November 15-17, 1999

To obtain additional conference and registration details or to be added to the conference mailing list, contact: Ruth Detlefsen, Bureau of the Census Bureau, Room 2641-3, Washington, D.C. 20233; Phone: 301-457-2665, Fax: 301-457-1343, and E-mail: fcsm@ccmail.census.gov. Periodic updates concerning the conference may be found on web site http://www.bts.gov/fcsm.

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Enroll Now!

Sample Size and Power Determination for Study Planning and Equivalence Testing:
Planning and Analyzing Non-Inferiority and Bioequivalence Trials

Sponsored by ASA's LearnSTAT

Who should attend? Biomedical and biopharmacological research statisticians involved in study planning and analysis who have a working knowledge of basic applied statistics

What will you learn? The morning session provides an introduction to sample size and power determination, and the afternoon to the newly developing field of equivalence and bio-equivalence testing.

Who will teach? Janet D. Elashoff Director, Biostatistics Division,Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Professor of Biomathematics, UCLA and a Fellow of the ASA and Fiona O'Callaghan, Customer Support Manager, Statistical Solutions.

How can you register? See the ASA website www.amstat.org/education or contact sue@amstat.org. Consult the ASA FAX-On-Demand at 1-888-AMSTAT-5 / Dial: 1-888-267-8285.

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SIGSTAT Schedule - March and April 1999

The April SIGSTAT on the 21st will be a demo of the SAS/ETS Time Series Forecasting System (TSFS). The TSFS is a menu interface to the forecasting capabilities of SAS/ETS. Through simple point-and-click operations the best forecasting model (selected from a preset list of models) can be quickly found for a number of time series.

*(Note March's meeting is on the 1st Wednesday)

All SIGSTAT meeting are held in Waugh A on the 3rd floor of 1800 M St, NW. Directions to the meetings and a full schedule can be found on the SIGSTAT website www.econ.ag.gov/sigstat/. First-time attendees should contact Charlie Hallahan at 202-694-5051 or hallahan@econ.ag.gov to leave your name for admittance to the building.

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Note From The WSS NEWS Editor

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WSS People

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First posted February 22, 1999
Last modified February 26, 1999

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