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Activity Number: 281
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #304152
Title: Statisticians Speak Out
Author(s): Frederick O. Lorenz*+ and David Rockoff
Companies: Iowa State University and Iowa State University
Address: 574 N Loop Dr, Ames, IA, 50011,
Keywords: history ; archives
Abstract:

Over the past decades, statisticians have publicly weighed in on many of the important issues of the day, from the Civil War to the Great Depression to global warming. In this poster, we draw from documents in the ASA archive to demonstrate the positions, opinions and insights of former ASA members on the controversies of their day. (One of six posters in History of Statistics)

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