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3 unusual facts about American Statistical Association


American Statistical Association

Edward Jarvis, William Brigham and John Wingate Thornton, Memorial Of The American Statistical Association Praying The Adoption Of Measures For The Correction Of Errors In The Census, 1844

Icing the kicker

A study was also undertaken by Scott Berry, a statistician and the former chairman of the Statistics in Sports section of the American Statistical Association, and Craig Wood, a biostatistician and the Inaugural Henry Hood Center for Health Research Pillar Award winner, which was published in 2004 in the journal Chance.

Royal Statistical Society

It also publishes the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, which currently consists of three separate series of journals whose contents include papers presented at Ordinary Meetings of the Society, namely Series A (Statistics in Society), Series B (Statistical Methodology) and Series C (Applied Statistics), as well as a general audience magazine called Significance published in conjunction with the American Statistical Association.


David J. Thomson

He holds memberships in the Royal Statistical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Statistical Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union, and in 2009 received a Killam Research Fellowship (administered through the Canada Council for the Arts).

John Tukey

Among many contributions to civil society, Tukey served on a committee of the American Statistical Association that produced a report challenging the conclusions of the Kinsey Report, Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

Ramanathan Gnanadesikan

He is a fellow of AAAS, ASA, IMS and RSS, and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

Washington, New Hampshire

Carroll D. Wright, first US Commissioner of Labor; fifth president of the American Statistical Association; first president of Clark College


see also

Cutler J. Cleveland

Cleveland is a member of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Energy Statistics, an advisory group to the Department of Energy.

Thomas N.E. Greville

Greville was a member of the American Mathematical Society; the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; the Society of Actuaries; the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; the American Statistical Association; and the Parapsychological Association.