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Response to ‘Demystifying Apportionment Computations for the US House of...
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Jemar R. Bather, Janice Johnson Dias, and Melody S. Goodman The global pandemic increased the public’s demand for information. Almost daily, media and policymakers present numbers on testing, deaths,...
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Sam Behseta, Professor of Statistics, California State University, Fullerton; Cherie Ichinose, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, California State University, Fullerton; David Drew,...
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Modernizing Government Statistics for the 21st Century
Anil Arora has worked at Statistics Canada for more than 25 years, leading significant programs and transformations. He was appointed chief statistician of Canada in September of 2016. He has also...
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Chris Barker, Statistical Consulting Section Chair-Elect As chair-elect of the Statistical Consulting Section, I present my motivation for one of my several forthcoming section initiatives. My...
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What Is Statistics?
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A Statistician’s View: New Year Hopes for Andreas Georgiou as Court Decisions...
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Norman Matloff is a computer science professor at the University of California, Davis. He was one of the founding members of the department of statistics there and works in both fields. His current...
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The United States Needs to Fill the Gaps in Its Crime Statistics
Janet L. Lauritsen is Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emerita in the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri – St. Louis and 2022 president of the American...
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