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The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for
statistician A statistician is a person who works with Theory, theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private sector, private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, a ...
s and related professionals in the
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. It was founded in
Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
, Massachusetts, on November 27, 1839, and is the second-oldest continuously operating professional society in the U.S. behind the
Massachusetts Medical Society The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) is the oldest continuously operating state medical association in the United States. Incorporated on November 1, 1781, by an act of the Massachusetts General Court, the MMS is a non-profit organization t ...
(founded in 1781). ASA services statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of
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across many academic areas and applications. The association publishes a variety of journals and sponsors several international conferences every year.


Mission

The organization's mission is to promote good application of statistical science, specifically to: * support excellence in statistical practice, research, journals, and meetings * work for the improvement of statistical education at all levels * promote the proper application of statistics * anticipate and meet member needs * use the discipline of statistics to enhance human welfare * seek opportunities to advance the statistics profession


Membership

As of 2022, the ASA membership exceeds 19,000 professionals found in government, academia, and the private sector.


Corporate supporters

Organizational members and corporate supporters of the ASA include
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, Merck & Co., the
National Security Agency The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the director of national intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and proces ...
,
Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered at The Spiral (New York City), The Spiral in Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 184 ...
,
RTI International Research Triangle Institute, operating as RTI International, is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA. RTI provides research and technical services. It was founded in 1958 with $500,000 in fu ...
,
Stata Stata (, , alternatively , occasionally stylized as STATA) is a general-purpose Statistics, statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers ...
Corp and
Westat Westat is an employee-owned professional services corporation located in Rockville, Maryland. It provides research services to government agencies and businesses and conducts research studies in behavioral health & health policy, clinical trials, ...
.


Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In November 2018, ASA Board of Directors approved a code of conduct statement on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI). It was reviewed and updated by ASA BOD in 2019, 2021, and most recently in 2023. In June 2020, the R. A. Fisher Award and Lectureship was changed to
COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship The COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (formerly known as R. A. Fisher Award and Lectureship) is a very high recognition of achievement and scholarship in statistical science that recognizes the highly significant impact of stati ...
. The change follows discussions about
Fisher Fisher is an archaic term for a fisherman, revived as gender-neutral. Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to: Places Australia * Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *Elec ...
's views on race and eugenics. In 2021, ASA established the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Outreach Group, known as the JEDI Outreach Group.


Fellowship

New
Fellowships A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals in academia, medicine, research, and industry. The exact meaning of the term differs in each field. In learned or professional societies, the term refers ...
of the ASA are granted annually by the ASA Committee on Fellows. Candidates must have been members for the preceding three years but may be nominated by anyone. The maximum number of recipients each year is one-third of one percent of the ASA membership.


Organizational structure

ASA is organized in Sections, Chapters and Committees. Chapters are arranged geographically, representing 78 areas across the US and
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. An example of an early and large chapter is the SoCalASA. Sections are subject-area and industry-area interest groups covering 22 sub-disciplines. ASA has more than 60 committees coordinating meetings, publications, education, careers, and special-interest topics involving statisticians. ASA is a member society of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.


Accredited Professional Statistician

, the ASA offers the Accredited Professional Statistician status (PStat), to members who meet the ASA's credentialing requirements, which include an advanced degree in statistics or related quantitative field, five years of documented experience, and evidence of professional competence. To apply for continuing accreditation, PStat members are expected to complete 60 hours of professional development activities each year. The ASA also offers the Graduate Statistician status (GStat) as of April 2014. It serves as a preparatory accreditation suitable for graduate students. A list of PStat and GStat accredited members is available on the ASA website.


Publications

The ASA publishes several
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s: * ''
Journal of the American Statistical Association The ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American Statistical Association. It covers work primarily focused on the application of statis ...
'' (JASA) * ''
The American Statistician ''The American Statistician'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering statistics published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American Statistical Association. It was established in 1947. The editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief ...
'' (TAS) * ''
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics The ''Journal of Business & Economic Statistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Statistical Association. The journal covers a broad range of applied problems in business and economic statistics, including f ...
'' (JBES) * ''
Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics ''Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics'' (JABES) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is a joint publication of the International Biometric Society and the American Stati ...
'' (JABES) * ''
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...
'' (JCGS) * ''
Technometrics ''Technometrics'' is a journal of statistics for the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences, published quarterly since 1959 by the American Society for Quality The American Society for Quality (ASQ), formerly the American Society fo ...
'' (TECH) * ''Journal of Nonparametric Statistics'' * ''Statistical Analysis and Data Mining'' (The ASA Data Science Journal) * ''Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research'' (SBR) Online-only journals: * '' Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education'' (JSDSE) * ''Statistics and Public Policy'' Co-Published journals: * ''
Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics ''Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics'' (JABES) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is a joint publication of the International Biometric Society and the American Statis ...
'', co-sponsored with the
International Biometric Society The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including biostatistics. It sponsors t ...
* ''
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics The ''Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a part ...
'', co-sponsored with the
American Educational Research Association The American Educational Research Association (AERA, pronounced "A-E-R-A") is a professional organization representing education researchers in the United States and around the world. AERA's mission is to advance knowledge about education and ...
* '' SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification'', co-sponsored with the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...
* ''
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology The ''Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers statistical and methodological issues for sample surveys, censuses, administrative record systems, and other related data. The journal was establi ...
'' (JSSAM), co-sponsored with the
American Association for Public Opinion Research The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is a professional organization of more than 2,000 public opinion and survey research professionals in the United States and from around the world, with members from academia, media, gover ...
* ''Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports'' (JQAS) * ''
Statistics Surveys ''Statistics Surveys'' is an open-access electronic journal, founded in 2007, that is jointly sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada ...
'', co-sponsored with the
Bernoulli Society The Bernoulli Society is a professional association that aims to further the progress of probability and mathematical statistics, founded as part of the International Statistical Institute in 1975. It is named after the Bernoulli family The Berno ...
, the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts ...
, and the
Statistical Society of Canada The Statistical Society of Canada (abbreviated as SSC; ) is a professional organization whose mission is to promote the use and development of statistics and probability. Its objectives are * to make the general public aware of the value of stat ...
(online-only) The ASA co-sponsors the ''
Current Index to Statistics The Current Index to Statistics was an online database published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association that contained bibliographic data of articles in statistics, probability, and related fields. ...
'' (CIS) The monthly magazine for members ''Amstat News'' is available online and features first-person statistician stories called My ASA Story. Based on the monthly column in ''AmStat News,'' the ASA produces a website called STAT''tr@k'' with new articles every month for early career statisticians and data analysts, recent graduates, or those who are in a statistics program. Quarterly magazine ''
Chance Chance may refer to: Mathematics * In mathematics, likelihood of something (by way of the likelihood function or probability density function) * ''Chance'' (statistics magazine) Places * Chance, Kentucky, US * Chance, Maryland, US * Chanc ...
'' and bimonthly magazine Significance are geared toward a general audience. Historical publications include: * Edward Jarvis, William Brigham and John Wingate Thornton, ''Memorial of the American Statistical Association Praying the Adoption of Measures for the Correction of Errors in the Census'', 1844 * Publications of the American Statistical Association, 1888-1919 (Vols. 1-16) and Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association, 1920-1921


Meetings

Meetings provide a platform for scholars and practitioners to exchange research, job opportunities and ideas with each other. ASA holds an annual meeting called
Joint Statistical Meetings The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is a professional conference/academic conference for statisticians and data scientists held annually every year since 1840 (usually in August). Billed as "the largest gathering of statisticians held in North Ame ...
(JSM), a conference on statistical methodologies and applications called
Spring Research Conference The IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference (SRC) is an annual conference sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The goal of the SRC ...
(SRC), Conference on Statistical Practice (CSP), and sponsors multiple international meetings and special-interest group meetings.


See also

*
American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...
*
COPSS Presidents' Award The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics Statistics (from German language, Ger ...
*
List of fellows of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The designation of ASA Fellow has been a signi ...
*
President of the American Statistical Association The president of the American Statistical Association is the head of the American Statistical Association (ASA). According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer, and a member of the board of directors and of the executive committ ...
* Statistics Without Borders (SWB)


References


External links


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