STAT-HAWKERS at the Joint Statistical Meeting 2012, San Diego, CA

Sarjinder Singh, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Model Assisted Statistics and Applications (MASA) organized a booth STAT-HAWKERS at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) of the American Statistical Association, during July 28 August 2, 2012, in San Diego, CA. The First International Meeting of the MASA members of the Editorial Board, reviewers, and guests of the journal, in July 31, at the JSM is shown in Picture 1. The meeting was chaired by Stan Lipovetsky, Co-Editor-in-Chief of MASA. The topics of the discussion included how to promote the journal and to increase its citation rate. Professors Igor Mandel and Vladimir Ladyzhets suggested various ways for solving such problems. Reviewers and would be reviewers Jingjing Doris Gao, Hugh Gong, Fang Liu, and Shawn Odumade shared their thoughts on the subject Professor Wenyaw Chan has been organizing a special issue on “Recent developments in statistical methods for medical research”.