The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston,Massachusetts on November 27,1839,and is the second-oldest continuously operating professional society in the U.S. behind the Massachusetts Medical Society. ASA services statisticians,quantitative scientists,and users of statistics across many academic areas and applications. The association publishes a variety of journals and sponsors several international conferences every year.
Lester Robert Frankel was a prominent American survey statistician. He studied under Harold Hotelling,receiving a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936,and in 1953 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He served as the 70th president of the American Statistical Association in 1975. He was also president of the Market Research Council,and received awards for distinguished service from that organization and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Robert Martin Groves is an American sociologist and expert in survey methodology who has served as the Executive Vice President and Provost of Georgetown University in Washington,D.C.,since August 2012. He also served as the Director of the United States Census Bureau from 2009 to 2012.
The director of the Bureau of the Census is the chief administrator of the United States Census Bureau (USCB). The officeholder is appointed by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate and assisted by the Deputy Director of the United States Census Bureau. The current director is Robert Santos.
Vincent Barabba is an American market researcher,author,former head of the United States Census Bureau,and the chairman and co-founder of Market Insight Corporation. He is known for his work in the field of market research and opinion polling.
Malay Ghosh is an Indian statistician and currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida. He obtained a B.S. in 1962 from the University of Calcutta,and subsequently a M.A. in 1964 from the University of Calcutta. Then he moved to the United States to pursue higher academic studies and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1969 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,under the supervision of Pranab K. Sen.
Margaret E. Martin was an economist and statistician at the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1942 to 1973. She was influential in the development of U.S. economic statistics and became president of the American Statistical Association.
Nancy A. Potok is a former American government official who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from January 2017 to December 2019. She is currently the CEO of NAPx Consulting.
Sallie Ann Keller is a statistician and a former president of the American Statistical Association (2006).
Barbara Ann Bailar was an American statistician,who worked for many years at the United States Census Bureau but resigned in protest over the decision not to adjust its 1990 results. She was the only person to have been both president and executive director of the American Statistical Association.
Amarjot Kaur is an Indian statistician who in 2016 became the president of the International Indian Statistical Association. She works for Merck Research Laboratories,as Executive Director of Clinical Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences. She is also the 2017 treasurer of the American Statistical Association,and in 2013 she chaired the American Statistical Association Community of Applied Statisticians.
Joan Raup Rosenblatt was an American statistician who became Director of the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1976.
Dionne L. Price was an American statistician and first African-American president of the American Statistical Association (ASA),the world's largest professional body representing statisticians. Price worked as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research,in the US Food and Drug Administration. Her division provided statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective,anti-viral,ophthalmology,and transplant drug products".
Shirley Kallek was an American economic statistician known for her work at the United States Census Bureau. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics and of the Washington Statistical Society.
Nancy May Gordon is an American economist and statistician who works for the United States Census Bureau.
Katherine Jenny Thompson is a statistician in the United States Census Bureau,where she is Methodology Director of Complex Survey Methods and Analysis Group in the Economic Statistical Methods Division.
Nicholas (Nick) Horton is an American statistics professor and author. He is the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College. In 2022,he began a 3-year term as the vice president of the American Statistical Association.
Lynda Shirley Tepfer Carlson is a retired American statistician,formerly the director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics of the National Science Foundation. As director of the center,she led an effort to collect information about college education by including this topic in the American Community Survey of the United States Census Bureau.
