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Proponents of a mandatory American Community Survey (ACS) have watched closely Canada's experience since converting their mandatory 2011 Census long-form to the voluntary National Household Survey. We learned more than a year ago that, as expected, their response rates decreased and costs went up but we had to wait until last week, May 8, to learn about the data quality. [more]

The Department of Statistics at NC State is holding a symposium entitled "Advances in Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Observational and Experimental Data," July 12-13, 2013, in honor of Butch Tsiatis, to be held on the NC State campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Speakers include James Robins, Tom Louis, Geert Molenberghs, Gary Rosner, KyungMann Kim, and many more! Visit [more]

In commemoration of Big Data Week April 22-28, I'm sharing a short draft document I'm working on regarding the role of statistics in big data. Clearly, progress from and in big data will be advanced by many scientific disciplines ranging from data mining and computational science to statistics and machine learning. [more]

The FDA’s Computational Science Center, in collaboration with PhUSE, has set up a public repository for open-source scripts (computer programs, tools, and related resources) to help manage, summarize, explore, analyze, and report clinical trial data.

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