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  • Annual Business Meeting

    The Central Indiana Chapter will be having its annual business meeting on Thursday, 08 May, 2025. Join other chapter members at the Guggman Haus Brewery as our President Meghan Tooman recaps this past year and previews upcoming chapter events. We will also be soliciting nominations for new chapter officers. After chapter business, stick around and network with your fellow statisticians and data scientists.

        what:  Annual business meeting / social hour
        when:  Thursday, 08 May, 2025
                    4:30 - 6:00 pm ET
        where:  Guggman Haus Brewing Co. 
                     Boyle Racing Room
                     1701 Gent Ave
                     Indianapolis IN 46202
        register:  Let us know you will be attending! 

    There is no cost to attend for chapter members. Potential new chapter members and guests will be charged $5. The chapter will be providing appetizers and your first drink. Attendees are free to order off of the Guggman Haus dinner menu at their own expense. 

    Guggman Haus is a dog and bicycle friendly brewpub!

  • Virtual lunchtime meeting

    Join the Central Indiana Chapter for a virtual lunchtime meeting where our guest speaker will be Dr. Giorgos Bakoyannis from the Department of Biostatistics at the IU School of Medicine.
     
        date: Tuesday, February 04, 2025
        time: Noon - 1:00 ET
     
    title: Estimating optimal individualized treatment rules with multistate processes
     
    abstract:
    Multistate process data are common in studies of chronic diseases such as cancer. These data are ideal for precision medicine purposes as they can be leveraged to improve more refined health outcomes, compared to standard survival outcomes, as well as incorporate patient preferences regarding quantity versus quality of life. In this work, we propose a nonparametric outcome weighted learning approach for this problem in randomized clinical trial settings. The theoretical properties of the proposed methods, including Fisher consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimated expected outcome under the estimated optimal individualized treatment rule, are rigorously established. A consistent closed-form variance estimator is provided and methodology for the calculation of simultaneous confidence intervals is proposed. Simulation studies show that the proposed methodology and inference procedures work well even with small-sample sizes and high rates of right censoring. The methodology is illustrated using data from a randomized clinical trial on the treatment of metastatic squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Finally, we present an extension of the methodology for observational data where confounding and dependent right censoring are common.
     
    speaker:
    Giorgos Bakoyannis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at Indiana University Indianapolis, where he also serves as the Director of Public Health Science Research. His methodological research focuses on precision medicine, specifically the development of methods for estimating optimal individualized treatment rules, and causal inference. Dr. Bakoyannis’ expertise also includes the nonparametric and semiparametric analysis of complex event history data, with a particular emphasis on challenges commonly encountered in biomedical and clinical research, such as missing data, misclassification, and interval censoring. His work has been published in leading statistical and biostatistical journals, including Biometrics, Biostatistics, and Statistica Sinica. Dr. Bakoyannis has received several awards from the American Statistical Association, the International Biometric Society – Eastern North American Region, and the International Chinese Statistical Association. He has also received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Principal Investigator to conduct methodological research.
  • 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award Winners

    We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award competition. 

    We received many outstanding submissions this cycle and will again award two honorable mentions for exceptional scholarship, in addition to the two prizes for the top two papers. 

    The 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award winners: 

    • Andy Shen (UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics)
    • Chengyu Cui (University of Michigan, Department of Statistics)

    The 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award Honorable Mentions: 

    • Daniel Suen (University of Washington, Department of Statistics)
    • Wenbo Fei (Columbia University, Department of Biostatistics)

    There will be an award ceremony at the Mental Health Statistics Section mixer at JSM 2025 to honor the winning submissions and honorable mentions and to present awards. We look forward to seeing you then! 

  • Registration is open for the Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference!

    Mark your calendars for the 9th biennial Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference, sponsored by the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section! The conference will take place from June 16-18, 2025, at Rutgers University. We have a great program in the works. Abstract submission and registration are now open. We hope to see you in June!

  • Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award 2024

    On behalf of the selection committee, we announce that the 2024 Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award recipient is Frederick W. Faltin of Virginia Tech.

    Over his 40+ year career, Fred Faltin has made significant contributions as a researcher, consultant, author, and educator. He has successfully applied statistical quality and productivity methods across many problem domains, and through his publications and presentations, has promoted their use by others.  Fred is best known for his work in process control and statistical process monitoring, design of experiments, and as a corporate research manager and international consultant.  He was elected a Fellow of ASA in 2002.

    Fred was deeply involved in quality and productivity improvement across many of General Electric's businesses and founded the data science laboratory at GE Research.  After his career at GE, Fred co-founded a consulting company which supported organizations around the world in domains ranging from manufacturing to financial services, healthcare, and corporate real estate.

    Fred has successfully promoted quality and productivity techniques through the publication of technical and non-technical papers and articles in refereed journals, magazines, and book chapters.  He was co-Editor-in-Chief of three books in applications of statistics, including the highly cited Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability.  Through the many professionals he has trained and mentored in courses, tutorials and seminars, his work has delivered incalculable value to individuals' careers and to the product and process design and improvement of their employers.  Fred's ability to translate sophisticated statistical concepts and into real-world applications that non-statistical operators and managers could understand and apply has been a key to his impact.  Methods that Fred developed and taught are now routinely used by practitioners across the globe as part of their everyday jobs. 

    Fred currently serves as Professor of Practice in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech, where he teaches the theory and practice of Data Science in VT's Computational Modeling and Data Analytics curriculum.  In this role, he is promoting awareness and use of statistics for organizational quality and productivity improvement to the next generation of professional data scientists.  Fred is a natural teacher whose wealth of personal and business experience greatly benefits his students.

    Fred Faltin has demonstrated outstanding and sustained achievement and leadership in developing, promoting, and successfully improving the quality and productivity of products, services, and organizational performance using statistical concepts.  He is an exceptionally deserving recipient of the prestigious ASA Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award.

    Congratulations Fred!!

    Note: The Gerald Hahn Award recipient will give the Q&P plenary address at the Fall Technical Conference

    Nominations for the 2025 award will be open later in the year.

    Maria Weese
    2024 Chair, Q&P
  • JSM 2024 Sessions Sponsored by the B&E Section

    The Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association has organized several sessions for the upcoming Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon, from August 4th to 8th. In addition to invited, topic-contributed, and contributed paper sessions, the annual Economic Outlook Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, August 6th, followed by the annual membership meeting later that day.

    A PDF file with all the sessions sponsored by the B&E Section by day is available on this website.

    The tables below show the sessions available on each day, with the location and type of session included in the table.

    Key: Locations

    • CC: Oregon Convention Center
    • H: Hyatt Regency Portland

    Key: Session Type

    • CP: Contributed Papers
    • IP: Invited Paper Session
    • LS: Lunchtime Speakers
    • M&R: Meeting and Reception
    • POST: Contributed Posters
    • TCP: Topic-Contributed Paper Session

    Sunday, August 4, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Bayesian Modeling and Multivariate Time series 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CP CC-A104
    Innovative Adaptive Statistical Models for Time Series Data 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM TCP CC-F151

    Monday, August 5, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Data Driven Methods in Financial Markets 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM IP CC-B119
    Causal Econometrics and Data Analysis 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CP CC-B119
    Recent Advances in High-dimensional Time Series Analysis for Business and Economics Data 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM TCP CC-F151

    Tuesday, August 6, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Changepoints, Discontinuities, and Nonparametrics 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CP CC-C120
    Modern Methods in Time Series and Econometrics 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM IP CC-B110
    Economic Outlook Luncheon (Added Fee) 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM LS CC-C124
    Business and Economic Statistics Student Paper Awards 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM TCP CC-B119
    Time Series Estimation and Theory 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CP CC-B118
    Section General Meeting and Reception 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM M&R H-Willamette 1a

    Wednesday, August 7, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Economic Forecasting and Seasonality 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CP CC-C125
    Contributed Poster Presentations: Business and Economic Statistics Section 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM POST CC-Hall CD
    Recent Advances in Time Series Methodology 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM TCP CC-254
    A Skeptical View of Artificial Intelligence 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM IP CC-B119

    Thursday, August 8, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Advances in Nowcasting to Help Inform Timely Policy Decisions 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM TCP CC-F149
    New Advances in Causal Inference under Network Interference 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM IP CC-258
    Risk Analysis, Management, and Investing 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CP CC-D134
  • JSM is coming up

    Join our community and check out the discussions to see some of things happening at JSM.  Join us for a lunch social on Tuesday 8/6.

  • Chapter Networking Event

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        What:  Chapter networking event
        When:  Thursday, August 22, 2024
                     4:00 pm - 6:00 pm ET
        Where: 317 BBQ
                     6320 Guilford Ave
                     Indianapolis, IN 46220
        It's Free!:  register on eventbrite
        
    Join your fellow Central Indiana Chapter members in Broad Ripple on Thursday, August 22, 2024 for a professional networking event. We are teaming up with C|Spring (a consulting firm specializing in data analytics and information management strategies) to host this casual, after-work get-together. There will not be a speaker or seminar. The purpose of the event is to mingle and converse with your fellow statisticians and data science professionals from central Indiana. Light food and beverages will be served. The event is FREE, but you need to register to attend. 
     
    If you have any questions or would like more information about this event, please contact our chapter president Meghan Tooman (meghan@dorisresearch.com).
     
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  • JSM 2024

    Look for CSD at JSM!

    We're sponsoring the sesssion "Statistical Analyses and Applications for Studying Intersectionality and Disability Inclusion" Wednesday, August 7 at 10:30 AM

    Members will be speaking at other sessions as well