New Normal Curves podcast episode! "HPV Vaccine: How close are we to wiping out cervical cancer?"
Great statistics lesson on disease modeling predictions with microsimulations, plus much more!
Regina Nuzzo
@ReginaNuzzo
Journalist, stats prof, and Senior Advisor for Statistics Communication & Media Innovation at the American Statistical Association. Opinions are my own.
- Great video by @milesobrien @NewsHour of @philipbstark showing how stats can give us confidence in election results. Risk-limiting audits are amazingly powerful! (Bonus: a peek into Phil's famous wild-food-foraging kitchen).@milesobrien went to Brunswick, Georgia, in September to see how a risk-limiting audit by election officials works. to.pbs.org/3oItinA
- Stats students: Interested in writing for broad audiences? I encourage you to apply! @amstat sponsors a special AAAS Mass Media Fellowship for a person with substantial training in stats. Past ASA/AAAS Mass Media Fellows have written for Slate, STAT News & NPR. #statstwitterAre you a science student or postdoc interested in #scicomm and journalism? You can try science journalism out in a newsroom next summer as a @aaas #MassMediaFellow. Applications are now open for 2021. Learn more and apply by January 1st here: aaas.org/fellowships/ma…
- TODAY 11 am ET: Reddit AMA on the statistics behind voting! 🗳️ Featuring Mary Gray from American U and Andrew Gelman @StatModeling from Columbia U Comments are pouring in already: reddit.com/r/politics/com… @AmstatNews
- #JSM2020 Looking forward to this: Eugenics and Its Intersection with Statistics and Society Over Time: A Conversation amstat-jsm.conferencecontent.net/session/220176
