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San
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This is the home page of the San Francisco Bay Area
chapter of the American Statistical Association
(ASA). Its purpose is to act as a clearinghouse of information of interest to
statisticians in the Bay Area. In it you will find announcements of local
meetings and seminars, Bay Area job listings, and information on local jobseekers
and consultants.
The SFASA
Chapter is officially a participant in the International
Year of Statistics 2013 
Departments
Bay Area Employment
Opportunities
Bay Area
Statistical Consultants
Links to Bay
Area Statistical Resources
Bay Area ASA Chapter
Information and How to Join the Chapter
Training Seminars and User
Groups
May 24 SFASA Seminar
A Simple Method for Detecting
Interactions Between a Treatment and a Large Number of Covariates
Speaker: Lu Tian , Assistant
Professor, Health
Research & Policy - Biostatistics
Date: Thursday,
May 24th
Time: 4:30
P.M. - 6:30 P.M.
Location: Stanford
University, Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR), Room 4105
Student Travel Award Seminar
& SFASA Business Meeting
Thursday, June 14, 2012
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Evans Hall, Room 1011 (Jerzy Neyman room), University of California, Berkeley
Student Travel Award Winners
Four winners of the student travel award of reimbursement up to
$1000 for travel to the San Diego JSM have been selected after careful
deliberation of four judges, Doris Shu (Treasurer),
Lynn Eudey (Past President), Chris Barker (President)
and Kit Lau (President Elect).
These students are
Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya - UC Berkeley Brianna
Heggeseth- UC Berkeley
Tessa Childers-Day - UC Berkeley Christine
Ho- UC Berkeley
The judges also decided to award $400 to two other
students who have applied. One student is from UC Davis and one student is from UC Santa Cruz.
These students are
Jairo Fuguene
- UC Santa Cruz Kimihiro Noguchi - UC Davis
Congratulations to all our Graduate
Student Travel Award Winners!
June 14 Student Travel Awards and Chapter Business Meeting - All
Chapter Members Welcome to attend
On June 14, after the student travel awards, at UC Berkeley, the
chapter will have a business meeting and dinner. The restaurant, to be in
Berkeley, location will be announced before the chapter meeting.
Chapter Officer Nominations and Upcoming Election Nominations are open for
Chapter Officer Positions of, President Elect, Vice Presidents, Secretary and
Treasurer.
Please send nominations to Chris Barker (chris.barker@barkerstats.com) or
Dean Fearn (dean.fearn@csueastbay.edu)
Upcoming
SFASA Seminars and Short Courses for 2012
Evaluation of Short Course:
Bayesian Inference, Prediction and Decision-Making II Nov 6, 2011
Bay Area Chapter Member Survey Statistical
Summary Bay Area Chapter Member Survey Questions
Workshop: Using Statistical Engineering to Solve
Large, Unstructured Problems
Lecturers: Roger
W. Hoerl, PhD, GE Global Research and Ronald D. Snee, PhD, Snee Associates, LLC
Abstact Workshop postponed: Date to be determined.
Mark Your
Calendars for the 3nd Annual Pacific Coast Statisticians and Pharmacometricians Innovation Conference (PaSiPhIC) Details
Motto -
Narrowing the distribution between stochastic scientists by bringing Statisticians
and Pharmacometricians together
Event
Dates: Monday June 25 - Wednesday June 27 City:
San Luis Obispo, CA
Volunteer Statisticians to visit Kindergarten
through 12th grade Mathematics,
Science or AP Statistics classes. Announcement
The Bay Area chapter is organizing workshop for
AP statistics teachers called ÒBeyond AP StatisticsÓ, that will be held July
12,13 at Aragon High School in San Mateo County. Please go to the
following page to register: http://www.sfasa.org/APStatisticsCourse.htm
Notes for Meetings of The San Francisco Chapter of the American
Statistical Association
Announcements of Some Meetings
of Other Statistical Organizations
New job listings posted as of 4/16/2012. See Bay Area Employment Opportunities
A link
to an article by SFASA Pres. Chris Barker titled ÒChapter Hosts Inaugural Workshop for AP Statistics TeachersÓ
was published on page 27 in the Nov. 1, 2011 issue of AMSTATNEWS.
Documents giving
some of SFASAÕs history
Chapter Officers, please refer to Bay Area ASA Chapter Information
Link to San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter in linkedin.com.
Some
old SFASA meeting Announcements
Site last updated May 14, 2012. Comments or questions? Want to submit an item to be included at this site? Please contact the web master at dean.fearn@csueastbay.edu