The AmericanStatisticalAssociation ASA , is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second ... accessdate 2011 02 15 publisher AmericanStatisticalAssociation ref Organizational structure ASA ... several scientific journal s Journal of the AmericanStatisticalAssociation JASA The American Statistician ... Brigham and John Wingate Thornton , Memorial Of The AmericanStatisticalAssociation Praying The Adoption Of Measures For The Correction Of Errors In The Census , 1844 See also Category Fellows of the AmericanStatisticalAssociation Fellows of the AmericanStatisticalAssociation President of the AmericanStatisticalAssociationAmerican Mathematical Society COPSS Presidents Award External links http www.amstat.org AmericanStatisticalAssociation http www.amstat.org about index.cfm?fuseaction ... American Statistical.html MacTutor AmericanStatisticalAssociation References Reflist Category AmericanStatisticalAssociation Category American professional bodies Category Statistical organizations Category Scientific societies Category 1839 establishments de AmericanStatisticalAssociation fr AmericanStatisticalAssociation it AmericanStatisticalAssociation ja zh ... 2009 03 24 date 2009 publisher AmericanStatistical Organization ref support excellence in statistical practice, research, journals, and meetings work for the improvement of statistical education at all ... http www.amstat.org about asamembers.cfm date 2009 accessdate 2009 03 24 publisher AmericanStatisticalAssociation ref research in medical areas such as AIDS environmental risk assessment the development .... Mission The organization s mission is to broadly promote good application of statistical science ... the promotion and development of statistical education for the public and the profession, and the expansion ... Online only journals Journal of Statistics Education JSE Journal of Statistical Software JSS It co ... more details
Infobox Journal cover image JASA cover.jpg discipline Statistics language English website http www.amstat.org PUBLICATIONS jasa publisher American Statistical Association country United States USA abbreviation JASA history 1888 to present frequency quarterly ISSN 0162 1459 eISSN 1537 274X LCCN sn99 23377 OCLC 1480864 JSTOR 01621459 impact 3.013 impact year 2008 link1 http www.ingentaconnect.com content asa jasa link1 name Recent issues at Ingenta Connect The Journal of the American Statistical Association is the most prestigious Academic journal journal published by the American Statistical Association , the main professional body for statisticians in the United States . It is published four times a year. It had an impact factor of 3.013 in 2008, fifth highest in the Statistics and Probability category of Journal Citation Reports . ref cite web url http admin apps.isiknowledge.com JCR JCR title Journal Citation Reports Science Edition year 2008 publisher Thomson Scientific accessdate 2010 06 05 ref References reflist External links http www.amstat.org PUBLICATIONS jasa Journal of the American Statistical Association Statistics journals Category American Statistical Association Category statistics journals American Statistical Association Category statistics stubs I don t like multiple stub messages socialscience journal stub ... more details
The President of the AmericanStatisticalAssociation is the head of the AmericanStatisticalAssociation ASA . According to the association s bylaws , the president is an corporate title officer , and a member of the board of directors and of the executive committee . Elections for the position are held annually, in which all full members are eligible to vote. The term in office is typically three years, as President Elect and Past President are also official positions. List of presidents 19th Century 1839 1845 Richard Fletcher statistician Richard Fletcher 1846 1851 George C. Shattuck 1852 1882 Edward Jarvis 1883 1896 Francis Amasa Walker 1897 1909 Carroll D. Wright 20th Century 1910 S. N. D. North 1911 Frederick L. Hoffman 1912 Walter Francis Willcox 1914 John Koren 1915 E. Dana Durand 1916 Charles P. Neill 1917 Allyn Abbott Young 1918 Wesley Clair Mitchell 1919 Joseph Adna Hill 1920 George E. Roberts 1921 Carroll W. Doten 1922 William S. Rossiter 1923 Warren M. Persons 1924 Louis Israel Dublin 1925 Robert E. Chaddock 1926 Leonard Porter Ayres 1927 Edmund E. Day 1928 Carl Snyder 1929 Edwin B. Wilson 1930 Malcolm B. Rorty 1931 William Fielding Ogburn 1932 Irving Fisher 1933 Stuart A. Rice statistician Stuart A. Rice 1934 Frederick C. Mills 1935 Willford I. King 1936 Joseph S. Davis 1937 Warren Randolph Burgess 1938 Robert H. Coats 1939 Raymond Pearl 1940 F. Leslie Hayford 1941 Winfield W. Riefler 1942 Alfred J. Lotka 1943 Emanuel A. Goldenweiser 1944 Helen M. Walker 1945 Walter A. Shewhart 1946 Isador Lubin 1947 Willard Thorp 1948 George W. Snedecor 1949 Simon Kuznets 1950 ... Papers Category Presidents of the AmericanStatisticalAssociation Category Lists of presidents of organizations AmericanStatisticalAssociation Category Presidents of statistical organizations Category ... of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics President of the Royal Statistical Society President of the Statistical Society of Canada External links http www.amstat.org about polproc index.cfm ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2010 The International Association for Statistical Computing IASC was founded during the 41st Session of the International Statistical Institute ISI in 1977, as a Section of the ISI. The objectives of the Association are to foster world wide interest in effective statistical computing and to exchange technical knowledge through international contacts and meetings between statisticians, computing professionals, organizations, institutions, governments and the general public. The Association is affiliated with the International Federation for Information Processing IFIP . It publishes the journal called Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Past presidents were Mervin E. Muller USA 1977 1979 Maurice Kendall Sir Maurice Kendall UK and Wilfried J. Dixon USA 1979 1981 Ramanathan Gnanadesikan India 1981 1983 Svein Nordbotten Norway 1983 1985 Klaus Neumann GDR 1985 1987 Masashi Okamoto Japan 1987 1989 John Chambers programmer John M. Chambers USA 1989 1991 Norbert Victor Germany 1991 1993 Natale Carlo Lauro Italy 1993 1995 Murray A. Cameron Australia 1995 1997 Edward Wegman Edward J. Wegman USA 1997 1999 Lutz Edler Germany 1999 2001 Jae C. Lee Korea 2001 2003 Stanley P. Azen USA 2003 2005 Gilbert Saporta France 2005 2007 Jaromir Antoch France 2007 2009 Present president Yutaka Tanaka Note this seems to to be the person of same name at Yutaka Tanaka External links http www.stat.unipg.it iasc International Association for Statistical Computing IASC home page http www.elsevier.com wps find journaldescription.cws home 505539 description Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Journal home page Category Statistical organizations ... more details
The Norwegian StatisticalAssociation NSF has three local societies located respectively in Oslo , Bergen , and Trondheim . The NSF has its own magazine called Tilfeldig Gang Random Walk . The Society is one of the four organisations responsible for the journal Scandinavian Journal of Statistics SJS . NSF was founded on January 7, 1919. The main goal of the Association was to act as a connection between Norwegian statisticians, and promote their research and professional interests. The Association also aims to make the relationship between statisticians from the Nordic countries stronger and increase contact with the international statistical society. The Association works strongly to promote and increase interest for statistics in the school system as well as in the rest of the society. Publications The NSF publishes Tilfeldig Gang and co publishes Scandinavian Journal of Statistics See also European Mathematical Society List of Mathematical Societies External links http www.math.uio.no nsf The NSF website http www.math.uio.no nsf diverse web index.htm Tilfeldig Gang http www.blackwellpublishing.com journal.asp?ref 0303 6898 Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Category Mathematical societies ... more details
Statistical Football prediction is a method used in sports betting , to predict the outcome of Association football matches by means of statistical tools. The goal of statistical match prediction is to outperform the predictions of bookmakers , who use them to set odds on the outcome of football matches. The most widely used statistical approach to prediction is ranking . Football ranking systems assign a rank to each team based on their past game results, so that the highest rank is assigned to the strongest team. The outcome of the match can be predicted by comparing the opponents ranks. Today, eight different football ranking systems exist FIFA World Rankings , World Football Elo Ratings , AQB Sports Ratings , The Roon Ba , InternationalMark , Rsoccer , Mondfoot and Chance de Gol . There are three main drawbacks to football match predictions that are based on ranking systems Ranks assigned ... article . History Publications about statistical models for football predictions started appearing ... published his first statistical analysis of soccer match results in 1956. According to his analysis ... home and away scores. Time Dependent Markov Chain Monte Carlo On the one hand, statistical models ..., London. ref ref name Reep article Reep C. Benjamin B. 1968 Skill and chance in association football . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 131, 581 585. ref ref name Hill article Hill I.D. 1974 , Association football and statistical inference . Applied statistics, 23, 203 208. ref ref name Maher article Maher M.J. 1982 , Modelling Association Football scores . Statistica Neerlandica ... Research Center 386, Discussion Paper 98 ref ref name Kuonen article Diego Kuonen 1996 Statistical ... Mark J. Dixon and Coles S.G. 1997 Modeling Association Football Scores and Inefficiencies in the Football ... Report. Norvegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. ref Categories Category Association football records and statistics Category Association football rankings FR Pr diction statistique ... more details
AmericanAssociation may refer to one of the following professional baseball leagues AmericanAssociation 19th century , active from 1882 to 1891 AmericanAssociation 20th century , active from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997 AmericanAssociation of Independent Professional Baseball , founded in 2005 AmericanAssociation may also refer to AmericanAssociation football , a minor professional American football league that existed from 1936 to 1950 disambig ja pt Associa o Americana zh ... more details
The American Educational Research Association , or AERA , was founded in 1916 as a professional organization representing educational researchers in the United States and around the world . AERA claims 25,000 members, including teacher s, Administration business administrators , directors of research persons working with testing or evaluation in federal, State education agency state and local agencies, School counselor counselors , evaluator s graduate student s and behavioral scientist s. The broad range of disciplines represented by the membership includes education, psychology, statistics, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, anthropology, and political science. Journals of the AERA American Educational Research Journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics published by the AERA jointly with the AmericanStatisticalAssociation Review of Educational Research Review of Research in Education External links http www.aera.net American Educational Research Association Category Educational psychology organizations Category Research organizations Category 1916 establishments edu org stub US org stub de American Educational Research Association ... more details
American Hockey Association may refer to American Hockey Association 1926 1942 , a minor pro league existing between 1926 and 1942 American Hockey Association 1992 1993 , a minor pro league existing between 1992 and 1993 disambig simple American Hockey Association ... more details
The Association of American Geologists and Naturalists was an USA American Science Scientific organization. The society was founded in 1840 as the AmericanAssociation of Geologists in Philadelphia . In 1842, it renamed itself the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists. By a vote of its members, it became, in 1848, the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science . The Association of American Geologists and Naturalists may be related also to a short lived American Geological Society 1819 1828 founded at Yale University . External links http www.scholarly societies.org history 1840aagn.html Websource Category Geology organizations ... more details
Infobox Organization name American Psychiatric Association image border Apa psychiatry logo.jpg caption ... http www.psych.org www.psych.org The American Psychiatric Association APA is the main professional ... are mainly United States American but some are international. The association publishes various .... The acronym APA is also commonly used by the American Psychological Association and its APA ... of insane asylums and hospitals formed the Association of Medical Superintendents of American ... members. In 1921, the name was changed to the present American Psychiatric Association. The APA ... of the organization. The outer ring contains the words American Psychiatric Association 1844 ... name change to the American Psychiatric Medical Association. ref cite web url http pn.psychiatryonline.org ... ref Organization and membership APA is led by the President of the American Psychiatric Association ... and Surgeons of Canada RCPS C , or the American Osteopathic Association AOA . Applicants for membership ... psychiatrist Adolf Meyer rose to prominence as the president of the American Psychiatric Association ... psychiatry and disability rights campaigners, who regularly protest at American Psychiatric Association .... APA published a position statement in response ref cite press release title American Psychiatric Association Statement on Diagnosis and Treatment Of Mental Disorders publisher American Psychiatric Association ... and other US facilities. The American Psychiatric Association released a policy statement that psychiatrists ... of the American Psychiatric AssociationAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology American Group Psychotherapy AssociationAmerican Journal of Psychiatry American Psychoanalytic AssociationAmerican Psychological Association Antipsychiatry Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ... The American Psychiatric Association Psychiatry Category Psychology organizations Category ... Association de American Psychiatric Association es Asociaci n Estadounidense de Psiquiatr a ... more details
Commented out because image was deleted Image Apsa logo.jpg 300px right thumb psychoanalysis American Psychoanalytic Association is an association of Category Psychoanalysts psychoanalysts in the United States . It was founded in 1911, and forms part of the International Psychoanalytical Association . See also Psychoanalysis External links http www.apsa.org American Psychoanalytic Association http www.ipa.org.uk International Psychoanalytical Association Category Organizations based in New York Category 1911 establishments Category Psychoanalysts Category Psychology organizations Category Scientific societies Category School accreditors Category Supraorganizations bg es Asociaci n Psicoanal tica Americana fr American Psychoanalytic Association pl American Psychoanalytic Association ... more details
infobox organization name American Forest & Paper Association image no image.svg image border size default 200 alt alt text see WP ALT caption map optional msize map size, optional, default 200px malt map alt text mcaption optional abbreviation motto formation Start date and years ago 1993 01 01 extinction date of extinction, optional type GO, NGO, IGO, INGO, etc status ad hoc, treaty, foundation, etc purpose focus as e.g. humanitarian, peacekeeping, etc headquarters location coords Coordinates of location using a coordinates template region served membership language official languages leader title Chairman leader name F. Colin Moseley main organ gral. assembly, board of directors, etc parent organization if one affiliations if any num staff num volunteers budget website http www.afandpa.org afandpa.org remarks The American Forest & Paper Association AF&PA is the national trade association of the forest products industry, representing manufacturers of approximately 80 percent of the U.S. paper production capacity and 50 percent of the wood building material capacity. AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993 by the merger of the National Forest Products Association and the American Paper Institute . ref name aboutafandpa cite web url http www.afandpa.org Template.cfm?section About AFandPA title About AF&PA accessdate 2008 06 17 publisher American Forest & Paper Association year 2002 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref Membership includes scores of companies and industry associations among them, Abitibi Consolidated AbitibiBowater Inc. , Boise Cascade Boise Cascade LLC , Duro .... The Association also serves as the forest products industry s primary statistical clearinghouse for manufacturing, production and capacity data. An AF&PA affiliate organization, the American ... www.afandpa.org American Forest & Paper Association , organization website http www.foresthistory.org ead National Forest Products Association.html Inventory of the National Forest Products Association ... more details
The American Gastroenterological Association is a medical association of gastroenterology gastroenterologists . About 14,000 scientist s and physician s are members of the organization, which was founded in 1897 and is the oldest medical association in the United States . External links http www.gastro.org Official website med org stub Category American medical associations Category Gastroenterology ru ... more details
Image Americanaccordionistslogo.png thumb right 140px Official logo of the American Accordionists Association The American Accordionists Association AAA is an United States Americanassociation dedicated to players of the accordion . It was established on March 9, 1938 and is currently based in Fairfield, Connecticut Fairfield , Connecticut . Pietro Deiro was the first president of the American Accordionists Association. The organization holds an annual accordion festival. It has also commissioned works for accordion from more than 50 composers. External links http www.ameraccord.com American Accordionists Association official site Category Organizations established in 1938 Category Accordionists Category Accordion organizations Category Fairfield, Connecticut music org stub fi American Accordionists Association sv American Accordionists Association ... more details
unreferenced date December 2007 The AmericanAssociation for Applied Linguistics is an United States American organization, founded in 1977, of scholars interested in applied linguistics . Category American professional bodies US org stub ling stub ... more details
The American Forensic Association was founded in 1949 in Chicago. It took over the National Debate Tournament from the United States Military Academy in 1966. It is a national organization designed to promote excellence in public speaking , individual events, and debate . Members Cross Examination Debate Association National Parliamentary Debate AssociationAmerican Debate Association International Debate Education Association External links Official http www.americanforensics.org US org stub Speech and debate stub Category Organizations based in the United States Category Student debating societies ... more details
The American Philological Association APA , founded in 1869, is a non profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of History of Greece Greek and Ancient Rome Roman civilization. Originally its members studied a great variety of texts and languages, but as disciplines such as linguistics and modern languages have created their own societies, the APA has come to be concerned with classical antiquity and fields closely related to the study of antiquity, while the definition of philology has broadened to include many approaches to understanding the ancient world. It is the preeminent association in the field, and publishes a journal, Transactions of the American Philological Association TAPA . The APA is currently based at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia . Convention The Association holds its annual convention in January, meeting jointly with the Archaeological Institute of America . About 400 scholarly papers are delivered at the APA meeting, which is also the site for interviewing for college and university positions and for the meetings of the many committees and affiliated groups. It is also the occasion for the presentation of APA awards http www.apaclassics.org Administration awards.html for teaching at both pre collegiate and collegiate level, for projects that bring classics to a wider public outreach , and of the Goodwin Award of Merit, which recognizes a recently published book. At every meeting, the Outreach Division conducts two events that are open to the general public. One is a special panel that is of interest to non specialists. Topics have included the movie Troy , Classics and Contemporary Fiction and the HBO series Rome ... of Pennsylvania . External links http www.apaclassics.org American Philological Association. Official ... de American Philological Association .... For example, it operates a Placement Service, gathers statistical information about the demographics ... more details
The American Psychopathological Association APPA is an organization , devoted to the scientific investigation of psychopathology disordered human behavior , and its biological and psychosocial substrates ref http www.appassn.org index.htm American Psychopathological Association Web page ref . The association was founded in 1910. It runs an annual Academic conference conference whose proceedings are published in book form by Oxford University Press and publishes six issues of the journal Comprehensive Psychiatry annually. References reflist External links http www.appassn.org American Psychopathological Association homepage http www.elsevier.com wps find journaldescription.cws home 623360 description description Comprehensive Psychiatry Web site Category Psychology organizations psych stub bg pl American Psychopathological Association ... more details
The AmericanAssociation of School Librarians AASL has been a division of the American Library Association ALA since 1951. Prior to that, school librarians were served by the School Library Section of ALA founded in 1914 which itself emerged from the Roundtable of Normal and High School Librarians which met first in 1913. The mission of the AmericanAssociation of School Librarians is to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library media field. AASL released the http www.ala.org aasl standards Standards for the 21st Century Learner in 2007 to guide instructional programs in school libraries. See also Young Adult Library Services AssociationAssociation for Library Service to Children External links http www.ala.org aasl AASL home page American Library Association library stub Category Library related professional associations Category American Library Association ... more details
The AmericanAssociation of Orthodontists , or AAO , is the United States American professional association for Orthodontics orthodontist s. Most American orthodontists, about 95 percent, are members. All orthodontists are Dentistry dentist s and may simultaneously hold membership in the American Dental Association . Orthodontists are dental specialists in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of orthodontic problems who have completed a minimum of two academic years of study in an accredited orthodontic residency program. Only those dentists who have completed this training may call themselves orthodontists, and only orthodontists may be members of the AmericanAssociation of Orthodontists. AAO is affiliated with the Canadian Association of Orthodontists . External links http www.braces.org Official website http www.aaomembers.org Member website See also Orthodontics Canadian Association of Orthodontists Orthodontology med org stub Category Orthodontics Category American dental organizations ja ... more details
Norwegian American Historical Association publishes scholarly books, documenting research and interpretations of the United States American experience of immigrant Norway Norwegians . ref http www.naha.stolaf.edu pubs nastudies.htm Norwegian American Studies publications available online Norwegian American Historical Association ref On 4th day of February, 1926, the Norwegian American Historical Association ... pubs nas volume01 vol1 08.htm Certificate of Incorporation of the Norwegian American Historical Association Norwegian American Historical Association. Volume I Page 152 ref Theodore C. Blegen served ... of historical scholarship enabled the Norwegian American Historical Association to achieve a reputation ... C. Blegen Carlton C. Qualey, Norwegian American Historical Association. Volume 21 Page 3 ref Ole E. Rolvaag , the author of Giants in the Earth , became the Association s first secretary and archivist ..., photographs, diaries and newspapers related to Norwegian American life. ref http www.naha.stolaf.edu pubs nas volume12 vol12 8.htm Ole Edvart R lvaag John Heitmann. Norwegian American Historical Association, Volume XII Page 144 ref The Association promotes Norwegian American historical research and literary ... Norwegian American Studies publications are available online. The Association has enjoyed success ... The Norwegian American Historical Association Norwegian American Historical Association Store norske ... American Historical Association Archives Norwegian American Historic Association ref ref http www.naha.stolaf.edu pubs nas volume01 vol1 07.htm The Norwegian American Historical Association D. G. Ristad, Norwegian American Historical Association, Volume I Page 147 ref References and notes references External links http www.naha.stolaf.edu index.htm Norwegian American Historic Association official ... Sogn og Fjordane Norwegian American Historical Association http www.stolaf.edu offices doc endowedchairs ... at St. Olaf College , in Northfield , Minnesota . Although the Association is still located ... more details
The AmericanAssociation of Endodontists , or AAE , is an United States American professional association of endodontists founded in Chicago in 1943. 95 of American endodontists are members, and the AAE also welcomes members from other countries. It represents over 6,500 members worldwide. The President is Dr. Clara Spatafore Spatts of Pittsburgh, PA as of 2010. Journal The Journal of Endodontics is the official journal of the AmericanAssociation of Endodontists. and is published by Elsevier . External links http www.aae.org Official website Category American medical associations Category American dental organizations med org stub ja ... more details
Image Asalogo.gif thumb right 200px Logo of the American Subcontractors Association. Founded in 1966, the American Subcontractors Association, Inc., is an IRS section 501 c 6 non profit, national, membership trade association of construction specialty trade contractors, suppliers, and service providers in the United States and Canada. It charters local chapters and state organizations across the United States, and its national headquarters is located in Alexandria, Va. See also industry trade group construction voluntary association subcontractor External links http www.asaonline.com American Subcontractors Association Category Industry trade groups based in the United States ... more details
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