American Statistical Association
professional organization for statisticians From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Statistical Association (ASA) is a not-for-money group of statisticians in the United States. Their mission is to work on research about statistics and similar sciences.[1] It was founded by Lemuel Shattuck in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839. The association publishes journals and holds international conferences every year.[2]
| Nickname | ASA |
|---|---|
| Formation | November 27, 1939 |
| Founded at | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Legal status | Non-profit organization |
| Purpose | Statistical research |
Membership (2022) | 19,000 |
| Website | https://www.amstat.org/ |
Formerly called | Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease |
Mission
The group's mission is to promote statistics, especially by doing the following things:[3]
- support good research, journals, and meetings about statistics
- make education about statistics better
- encourage using statistics the right way
- help its members
- use the discipline of statistics to help humanity
- help the profession of statistics
Membership
As of 2022, the ASA has more 19,000 members.[4] The group works with companies like AstraZeneca, Merck & Co., the National Security Agency, Pfizer, RTI International, StataCorp and Westat.[5]
Meetings
The group holds meetings so that their members can meet each other and share ideas. ASA holds annual meetings called Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM),[6] Spring Research Conference (SRC),[7] Conference on Statistical Practice (CSP),[8] and other meetings.
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.