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Greetings!
6:00PM-8:00PM May 15, 2008 The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago 60610The Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association is pleased to announce that David Wallace has been chosen the 2007-2008 Statistician of the Year. The Chapter's Statistician of the Year is selected by a vote of past honorees, all of whom are internationally renowned members of the statistical community. Selection as a Chicago Chapter Statistician of The Year is a very significant honor. His recent activity has focused on the study of principled methods of formal statistical inference, especially Bayesian, fiducial and likelihood-based methods, in relation to informal methods of exploratory data analysis. In particular he has sought out problems that display dissonance between the methods. Examples include inference about uncertain constructs like ratios, directions and maxima, and misbehavior of the modified likelihood ratio test for comparing two means. Please help us welcome David into the select community of Statistician of The Year winners at our chapter dinner on Thursday May 15, 2008 at the East Bank Club. Registration will begin at 6:00 pm; dinner will be served at 6:30 pm. The cost of the dinner is $55 Register online at https://www.123signup.com/register? id=tmvbp For questions about this event, please contact Richard Smiley at president@chicagoasa.org Please include your name and telephone number in all messages. If you make a reservation but are unable to attend, Richard must receive your cancellation by 9 am Wednesday, May 14th. Otherwise, we must ask that you pay, as the Chapter is liable for all meals ordered. As usual, the Lucile Derrick Fund will purchase a limited number of tickets for students who wish to attend.
As summer is upon us, the Parameter will be
taking a short recess. We will return again
in the fall, but feel free to stay tuned into
the CCASA website at
For information on National ASA happenings, visit www.amstat.org
Local Epidemiologist presents the idea that by using statistics, perhaps gang violence can be pinpointed and treated in the same way an infectious disease might be handled... Blocking the Transmission of Violence By Alex Kotlowitz, Published: May 4, 2008 LAST SUMMER, MARTIN TORRES WAS WORKING AS A COOK IN AUSTIN, Tex., when, on the morning of Aug. 23, he received a call from a relative. His 17-year-old nephew, Emilio, had been murdered. According to the police, Emilio was walking down a street on Chicago's South Side when someone shot him in the chest, possibly the culmination of an ongoing dispute. Like many killings, Emilio's received just a few sentences in the local newspapers. Torres, who was especially close to his nephew, got on the first Greyhound bus to Chicago. He was grieving and plotting retribution. "I thought, Man, I'm going to take care of business," he told me recently. "That's how I live. I was going hunting. This is my own blood, my nephew." Torres, who is 38, grew up in a dicey section of Chicago, and even by the standards of his neighborhood he was a rough character. His nickname was Packman, because he was known to always pack a gun. He was first shot when he was 12, in the legs with buckshot by members of a rival gang. He was shot five more times, including once through the jaw, another time in his right shoulder and the last time - seven years ago - in his right thigh, with a .38-caliber bullet that is still lodged there. On his chest, he has tattooed a tombstone with the name "Buff" at its center, a tribute to a friend who was killed on his 18th birthday. Torres was the head of a small Hispanic gang, and though he is no longer active, he still wears two silver studs in his left ear, a sign of his affiliation. Read on to learn more... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/magazine/04health-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Editor: Linda Burtch (312) 629-2400 PARAMETER, newsletter of the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association, is published 10 times a year as a service to its members. To submit material for publication, contact the Editor, Linda Burtch, email: lburtch@smithhanley.com PARAMETER provides a job listing service by publishing Positions Available and Positions Wanted, the latter being free to Chapter members. Companies may list positions for $75. Contact the Editor for more information. For additional information about Chicago Chapter ASA, please visit us on the web at: www.ChicagoASA.org Also, visit the National ASA web site www.amstat.org. Email change of address to: suzanne.niemi@walgreens.com |
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