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American Statistical Association

A professional organization for statisticians in the United States. It encourages the research and application of statistics in a variety of fields. The ASA also publishes a number of journals to further its work. Established in 1839, it is the second-oldest organization of its type still in existence. It is based in Virginia.
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Stoffer, "A Monte Carlo approach to nonnormal and nonlinear state-space modeling, " Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol.
Bayesian analysis for dynamic generalized linear latent model with application to tree survival rate
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, New Orleans, LA.
Examining the effectiveness of innovative instructional methods on reducing statistics anxiety for graduate students in the social sciences
"Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables." Journal of the American Statistical Association 91(434):4.44-72.
Comment on James J. Heckman, "Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions Used in Making Program Evaluations"
He was a fellow in the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Statistical Association, the Inter-American Statistical Association, the Society' of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Mathematical Association.
In memory of Thomas Greville
Dutka is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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In 1968, I had the honor to be elected President of the American Statistical Association and in my address to the members, I suggested a number of efforts which could improve the performance of economic forecasters.
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As it turned out, the research was award-winning, with the school receiving a set of statistical software from the American Statistical Association, which sponsored the competition.
Problem solving: dealing with data in the elementary school
(Champion male runners, Wainer calculated, can cover 3.75 times as much ground as champion swimmers in the same time; for women the ratio is 3.5.) His study was published in Chance, the journal of the American Statistical Association.
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Kennickell, "Imputation of the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances: Stochastic Relaxation and Multiple Imputation," Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 1991.
Changes in family finances from 1983 to 1989: evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
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