May 7, 2009Stern Named Coordinating Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association
Hal Stern, Chair of the Department of Statistics, has been appointed Coordinating Editor and Editor of Applications and Case Studies for the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
The American Statistical Association (ASA) Board of Directors made the three-year appointment, which runs from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2012.
In announcing the appointment of Stern and editors of several other Association publications, ASA president Sally Morton said, “The energy and expertise of these editors, who serve as volunteers, are what make ASA journals leaders in the world of statistics.”
The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), published quarterly, was established in 1888. JASA focuses on statistical applications, theory, and methods in economic, social, physical, engineering, and health sciences and on new methods of statistical education.
Important books contributing to statistical advancement also are reviewed. JASA was ranked among the top 5 journals in the field by survey respondents in a number of geographic and research areas in a 2003 study published by The American Statistician (which is also published by the ASA).
Stern is a Fellow of the ASA and previously served as an editor of ASA’s CHANCE magazine. Stern conducts research in statistical inference using Bayesian methods, methods for assessing the fit of statistical models, applications of statistics in the social and biological sciences, and application of probability and statistics in sports. He has more than 60 referred publications, and is a co-author of the popular statistics text "Bayesian Data Analysis".
