American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association (ASA) is a not-for-money group of statisticians in the United States. Their mission is to work on research about statistics and similar sciences. It was founded by Lemuel Shattuck in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839. The association publishes journals and holds international conferences every year.

 Mission 
The group's mission is to promote statistics, especially by doing the following things:

 support good research, journals, and meetings about statistics
 make education about statistics better
 encourage using statistics the right way
 help its members
 use the discipline of statistics to help humanity
 help the profession of statistics

 Membership 
As of 2022, the ASA has more 19,000 members. The group works with companies like AstraZeneca, Merck & Co., the National Security Agency, Pfizer, RTI International, StataCorp and Westat.

 Meetings 
The group holds meetings so that their members can meet each other and share ideas. ASA holds annual meetings called Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Spring Research Conference (SRC), Conference on Statistical Practice (CSP), and other meetings.

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Category:Non-profit organizations of the United States
Category:Statistics organizations