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Assunto: News from the World of Statistics: March 2017
De:      "Ron Wasserstein, ASA" <asamail em amstat.org>
Data:    Sex, Março 31, 2017 1:33 pm
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  European Central Bank Develops New Statistics Website










  [ http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/html/index.en.html ]



The European Central Bank (ECB) has implemented a new architecture for the
ECB statistics website [ http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/html/index.en.html
]  as part of its efforts to facilitate the use and access to Euro-area
and national statistics.

Apart from the structural changes, new visualizations are added to enable
swift viewing of core statistics. The navigation structure provides a more
intuitive and coherent way to access statistics based on economic
concepts. Also, short introductions for each section now provide visitors
with a better overview of what is available, and a stronger focus is on
the most frequently used statistics and latest releases.











  AAAS Held Talk on Statistical Methods Used to Investigate Human Trafficking










  [
http://www.aaas.org/news/experts-leverage-statistical-methods-investigate-human-trafficking
]



The American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Washington
Statistical Society, and Statistics Without Borders coordinated an event
on March 16, 2017, where statisticians Davina Durgana and Paul Zador
discussed techniques for gathering data on human trafficking prevalence [
http://www.aaas.org/news/experts-leverage-statistical-methods-investigate-human-trafficking
] .

Durgana is a senior statistician with the Walk Free Foundation. Her work
focuses on supporting the efforts of law enforcement groups and nonprofit
organizations by using statistical models to monitor human trafficking.
?Having better data on prevalence will allow policymakers and others to
have informed ways of measuring interventions and figuring out how
effective policy can be made,? she said.

Zador, a senior statistician with the research corporation Westat, has
designed surveys used to estimate human trafficking in countries like
India and Guatemala and analyzed the resulting data. He noted that
different methods are useful for different populations and that
researchers must consider local culture and customs when investigating a
specific region or group for potential trafficking victims. ??Trafficking?
and the other terms we are using here have local definitions that may be
very different than what you and I might accept,? he said.











  Significance Writing Contest Offers Publishing Opportunity










  [
http://www.rss.org.uk/RSS/About/Recognising_Statistical_Excellence/Early_career_writing_awards/RSS/About_the_RSS/Recognising_statistical_excellence_sub/Statistical_excellence_in_early_career_writing.aspx?hkey=b7851495-714f-4899-a9d5-c4d135e0f4d5
]



The Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing [
http://www.rss.org.uk/RSS/About/Recognising_Statistical_Excellence/Early_career_writing_awards/RSS/About_the_RSS/Recognising_statistical_excellence_sub/Statistical_excellence_in_early_career_writing.aspx?hkey=b7851495-714f-4899-a9d5-c4d135e0f4d5
]  recognizes the ability of early career statisticians to tell
data-driven stories in an entertaining and thought-provoking way.
Organized by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), this award is intended
for students or anyone within the first 10 years of their statistical
career ? whether studying, recently graduated or already working.

Submissions should be between 1,500 and 2,500 words, on the subject of
your choosing. Articles could be on work that you have done, or they could
explain the work of others. But to stand the best chance of winning, your
article needs to demonstrate the power that statistics has to challenge
myths, shape decisions and explain the world around us. Articles must be
engaging and easy to read. Significance is published for a broad audience
of readers, with varying levels of statistical expertise. This means
technical terms and mathematics should be kept to a minimum and explained
clearly where used.

Entries must be received by midnight on May 29, 2017. The winning author
and runners-up will be invited to give presentations based on their
articles at a special session of the Royal Statistical Society
International Conference in September in Glasgow, Scotland.











  Ethiopian Statistical Association Held Conference on Population, Census










  [ http://www.ethstat.org.et ]



The Ethiopian Statistical Association (ESA) held its annual conference on
March 25-26, 2017, in Addis Adaba, Ethiopia. The theme of the event was
?Role of Population and Housing Census in Tracking the SDGs Progress [
http://www.ethstat.org.et ] .? More than 25 papers were presented, in
addition to short courses and panel discussions on a variety of national
issues. Speakers included Eshetu Gurmu, Associate Professor at Centre for
Population Studies, College of Development Studies of Addis Ababa
University, Ethopia; Kiros Berhane, University of Southern California
(USC) & Fulbright Scholar (2016-2017) at AAU, Ethiopia; Henning Omre,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway; and Tesema
Astatkie, Dalhousie University, Canada. A special talk also focused on the
controversy around statistical significance and p-values.











  March Issue of IAOS Journal Now Available










  [ http://www.iaos-isi.org/index.php/the-march-2017-issue-of-the-sjiaos ]



The March 2017 issue [
http://www.iaos-isi.org/index.php/the-march-2017-issue-of-the-sjiaos ]  of
the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official
Statistics (IAOS) is now available. Its theme is ?Constant Focus: Engaging
to Measure Wealth.?

The issue is dedicated to Dr. Arthur Kennickell and his involvement with
the Survey of Consumer Finances (SFC). The SCF is a critical source of
information on the U.S. national economy and the economic livelihood of
American households. Dr. Kennickell worked for more than three decades at
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A person-to-person
interview between Katherine Condon and Dr. Kennickell also appears in the
issue.











  Texas University to Celebrate Sixth Annual Statistics Day














On April 21, 2017, the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M
University-Kingsville will host its Sixth Annual Statistics Day to
increase students? and faculty awareness of the important role that
statistics plays in everyday lives and in a variety of disciplines. The
celebration will consist of short talks from professors across the
country, a video presentation titles ?Statisticians Got Talent,? a
competition, and a special event on detecting fraudulent elections.











  Spain to Host Introductory Course to ?R? in May










  [ http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/statistics/introduction-r ]



For individuals not familiar with the software program, R, the
professional development organization ?Transmitting Science? will conduct
?Introduction to R [
http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/statistics/introduction-r ] ?
May 22-26, 2017, in Barcelona, Spain. The aim of this course is to give an
introduction to R addressed to people that has never used R. By the end of
the course, the participants should be able to import/export data-bases;
manage data sets, carry out basic statistical analyses; draw high quality
graphs, and program specific functions, all in R.

 Students are encouraged to bring a data set with them along with a
?previously completed? statistical analysis or graphic - ideally
something fairly introductory and simple from the student?s own field of
practice that you?ve worked with in Excel, SAS, or elsewhere.











  Biennial Jamaica Statistics Symposium Set for October














The Third Biennial Jamaica Statistics Symposium and Pre-Conference
Workshops (JASSYM 2017) organized by The Jamaica Statistical Society is
set for October 24-27, 2017 in Kingston, Jamaica. The theme for the JASSYM
2017 is ?Statistics for Success: Ethics, Data Security and Quality.?

The program will hone the data management and analysis skills of
researchers, data analysts, policy makers, and professionals from all
sectors of society involved in securing data, safeguarding data quality,
interpreting and using statistics and statistical methodology. Workshop
and symposium activities are aimed at equipping attendees from local,
regional, and international organizations to use best practices when
handling data.

Rochelle Tractenberg, chair of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Committee on Professional Ethics and director of the Collaborative for
Research on Outcomes and Metrics at Georgetown University Medical Center,
Washington D.C., will lead a pre-conference workshop that will help
participants make the best use of the ASA Ethical Guidelines in their
practice.

Presentations will be made from experts in different fields featuring the
application and use of statistical methodology in areas such as education,
finance, economics, transportation, and health. Abstracts are due May 19,
2017. For additional information, e-mail jssbiennial.rc em gmail.com [
mailto:jssbiennial.rc em gmail.com ] .











  ASA Expresses Support for Ousted Greece Statistics Officials










  [
http://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/pressreleases/2017-ASAExpressesSupportforOustedStatisticsOfficials.pdf
]



In a joint letter to Greece?s prime minister [
http://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/pressreleases/2017-ASAExpressesSupportforOustedStatisticsOfficials.pdf
] , Alexis Tsipras, on Monday, the ASA?the world?s largest community of
statisticians with members in more than 90 countries?expressed deep
concern over the legal proceedings against Andreas Georgiou, the former
president of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), and other senior
ELSTAT officials.

Georgiou was appointed by the Greek parliament in 2010 to head ELSTAT and
bring about the production of reliable Greek statistics. After many years
of understated deficit and debt figures reported by Greece, Georgiou
recalculated official economic statistics according to European Union (EU)
law. Statistics produced under his leadership were validated and published
by Eurostat (the official statistics body of the EU in which Greece is a
member) for five consecutive years.

Although various judicial procedures have several times concluded the
charges against Georgiou are baseless, the charges keep being revived. In
addition, in December, he was acquitted of related misdemeanor charges for
violation of duty, but that acquittal was reversed just 10 days later. He
is now to be retried for the same alleged crimes and thus subjected to
double jeopardy.

?The charges against Mr. Georgiou and two of his colleagues of
exaggerating the estimates of Greek government deficit and debt for the
year 2009 are fanciful and not consistent with the facts,? continues Mejia
and Wasserstein. ?There is widespread agreement among statistical
authorities that Dr. Georgiou compiled Greek public finance statistics in
accordance with EU rules and standards, with which Greece is obliged to
comply, and that charges against him are baseless.?











  Nigeria Statistical Association to Host First International Conference










  [ http://univi.net/spas/nsa_2017.pdf ]



>From September 6-8, 2017, at the University of Lagos, the Nigeria
Statistical Association will host its First International Statistical
Conference with a theme of ?Positioning National Statistical System for
Data Revolution and Inclusive Development [
http://univi.net/spas/nsa_2017.pdf ] .? Keynote talks will cover areas
such as the impact of statistical collaboration; developments in modeling
over/under dispersed count data; and statistics for good governance and
evidence-based decision-making. Abstracts are welcome from both members
and nonmembers and are due on/before May 20, 2017.











  School on Spatial Statistic and Extreme Value Opened Doors in Cuba














Organized by the International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics
(CIMPA) and the faculty of Mathematics and Computation in the University
of Havana, the School on Spatial Statistic and Extreme Value opened its
doors for students March 6-17, 2017, in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban Society of
Mathematics and Computation participated actively in its development.
Pierre Ribereau acted as CIMPA Officer and Carlos N. Bouza-Herrera served
as the Local Officer. The team of professors was well known in their areas
and was formed by the Liliane Bel, Gwladys Toulemonde, Cecile Hordouin,
Jessica Tressou, Jean N. Bacro, and Maria D. Ugarte. The courses focused
on Geostatistics, the Theory of Extremes, Spatial Statistical Models and
Spatial Issues Appearing in Epidemiology, Food Risks and related themes.
Students came from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Iraq, Mexico, and Uruguay.











  Brunei Government Hosts Workshop on Evidence-Based Decision, Meta-Analysis














The Department of Planning, Development and Research (DPDR) of the
Ministry of Education, Government of Brunei Darussalam organized a
three-day workshop on Evidence-Based Decision and Meta-Analysis from
January 23-25, 2017, in Bandar Sri Begawan, that emphasized the importance
of decision-makers to be evidence-informed, especially concerning the
levels and quality of evidence included in study design.

Professor Shahjahan Khan of the University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia, and the chief editor of the Journal of Applied
Probability and Statistics (JAPS), led the workshop, and Hj Ashri bin Haji
Ahmad, assistant director of DPDR, welcomed participants.

The first day was devoted to the presentations on introductory statistics
using SPSS and the statistical methods that are essential for
understanding meta-analysis of summary statistics from different
independent trials/studies to provide necessary statistical background to
the participants.

Dr. Khan introduced a recently published method, the inverse variance
heterogeneity (IVhet) model, and focussed on major problems with the
random effects model in the way of comparing the two models to deal with
heterogeneous meta-analyses.

In all, 27 officials from the Department of the Ministry of Education
attended the workshop.



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