American Statistical Association webinar, 5/23

Following the recent publication of a special issue of The American Statistician on “Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond p< 0.05” that features 43 papers on alternatives to p-values, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences is inviting you to a free webinar that provides a synopsis of the alternative ideas covered in the special issue and encourages additional discussions around this important topic.

The webinar will be held on Thursday May 23, 12-2pm ET (9-11am PT). Following is lineup of the speakers for the webinar (all times are ET).

12:00 Esra Kurum, (University of California, Riverside)
Introductions and moderator guidelines

12:05 Nicole Lazar, (University of Georgia)
“History of the topic and the motivation for American Statistical Association’s and The American Statistician’s involvement in
this topic”

12:25 Daniel Jeske, (University of California, Riverside)
“Overview of some of the technical matter found in some of the alternatives found in the special issue of The American
Statistician.”

12:55 Jessica Utts, (University of California, Irvine)
“How we might teach and influence inter–disciplinary collaborations”

1:15 Nell Sedransk, (Director-DC, National Institute of Statistical Science)
“Translation to other contexts: social science and big data research”

1:30 Q & A with the audience and speakers
Moderated by Esra Kurum

The webinar will use Zoom and is free to the public. Please register for this event HERE.