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SAN ANTONIO ASA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER March 2000, Vol 13, No. 3 | ************************************
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Title: "Statistics: Reflections on the Past and Visions for the Future" When: March 16-19,2000 Where: UTSA Downtown Campus
| | *****Announcing the Conference of Texas Statisticians 2000***** | | The Conference of Texas Statisticians(COTS) was established at the annual | American Statistical Association meeting in Houston, Texas, in 1980. Tom | Bratcher, Bill Schucany and Jim Davenport organized the first Conference of | Texas Statisticians meeting, which was held in Waco in February, 1981. The | Conference has been held annually since that date and has been sponsored | jointly by the Texas Chapters of the American Statistical Association. The | conference was held at Trinity University in San Antonio in 1995. The | Conference of Texas Statisticians gives statisticians the opportunity for | social and intellectual exchange on a yearly basis. These meetings also | stimulate increased chapter membership as well as visibility of the | statistical profession in the State of Texas. | | COTS 2000 is being held at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas | on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. For more information including | the conference program and complete registration information visit | http://math.shsu.edu/cots.html or call conference chair Cecil Hallum at | 409-294-3706. | | | *****Traveling Course 2000 Update********* | | Unfortunately the San Antonio Chapter was not chosen to receive the course | titled "Generalized Linear Models: Theory, Applications and Extensions" by | Joseph Hilbe. The Alabama, Middle/West Tennessee and Chihuahuan Desert | Chapters were awarded the course. | | As an alternative, our chapter could consider renting one of the continuing | education videotapes available from the ASA. Some recent additions to the | ASA library of tapes in 1999 are the following: | | Tape #4028 Mixed Models for the Practicing Statistician Using the SAS System | by George Milliken and Linda Young (6 hours) | | Tape #4029 Using the Cox Model for Correlated or Repeated Events by Terry | Therneau (4 hours) | | Tape #4030 Determining Sample Size and Power in Study Planning: UnifyPow by | Ralph O'Brien (4 hours) | | There is also an older videotape #4006 from 1983 called Generalized Linear | Models by Peter McCullagh, John Nelder and Daryl Pregibon that could be | rented. This is a two-day course that lasts 11 hours. | | If attending a chapter showing of one of these courses or any other course | listed at the ASA website: http://www.amstat.org/education/coursevideo.html | is of interest to you please contact any of the chapter officers listed at | the end of this newsletter. We are interested in knowing what you want to | see. | | | *****Science Fair Winners!**************** | | The San Antonio Chapter sent 15 volunteer judges to the Alamo Regional | Science Fair to help select those senior division projects that showed | excellence in investigation and use of statistical methods. This years | judges were Jacobina Alley, Billy Jackson, Hui-Min Chang, Howard Monroe, Ken | Williams, Johnny Weissmuller, Norma Ketchum, Malcolm Ree, Bill Alley, Gil | Tolan, Walter Albert, Deene Gott, Andrea Berndt, Jimmy Mitchell and Ron | Garcia. | | The San Antonio Chapter awarded savings bonds and copies of statistical | software, graphing calculators and statistics books to the winning students. | First place and a $250 savings bond was awarded to Wei-Fu Tan of Health | Careers High School. Second place and a $150 savings bond was awarded to | Elspeth Montgomery from Clark High School. Third place and a $100 savings | bond was awarded to Dominique Shelton from Health Careers High School. Four | honorable mentions were chosen: Randolph Shelton from Health Careers High | School, Kathryn Shepherd from Keystone High School, Felsen Bejnar from | Marshall High School and Jeffrey Martinez from Macarthur High School. | *****1999-2000 San Antonio ASA Officers*******************
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