Welcome to April 2012 issue

We are very excited to share with you the April 2012 issue of the MHS/SMHR Newsletter, accessible online at http://smhr.org/newsletter/2012/04/.   (Please be sure to go to the second page!)

A brief synopsis is given below.

If you are interested in participating in our petition to establish MHS as a new ASA section, and did not have a chance yet to do so, please submit your petition ASAP, by Monday, May 14th.  For further information, please see the article “Please partake in MHS petition“.

We have updated our proposed MHS charter and preamble, in response to feedback from the ASA Council of Sections Governing Board.  Please see the article “Updated MHS charter for your review” for further information.

Dr. Ken Kelley is organizing a petition for a new ASA Section on Statistics and Measurement in Psychology and Education, with opportunities for synergies and collaborations with our petition to establish MHS as a new ASA Section.  Please see the article “Statistics and Measurement in Psychology and Education” for further information.

Please see the article “Methods for developing adaptive interventions” for information about an exciting workshop this coming June to be taught by Drs. Susan Murphy and Daniel Almirall, and other methods workshops on mediation analysis, propensity score methods, latent class analysis, etc.

For a note on the history of terminologies related to the normal distribution, please see the article “On normal distribution“.

For opportunities to participate in a summer institute on longitudinal research, and related travel awards, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research (CALDAR), please see the article “UCLA CALDAR summer institute and award opportunities“.

For an exciting career opportunity, please see the article “Weill Cornell Psychiatry seeking senior biostatistician“.

For a funding opportunity, please see the article “Competitive funding support for early career investigators“.

Please see the article “Tom Ten Have memorial fund” for an opportunity to make a donation to honor our dear friend and colleague Tom Ten Have.

Please see the article “Spots filling up at the 2012 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference: Register now!” for an exciting conference at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD on May 24-25, 2012.

The current MHS/SMHR roster is available online at http://smhr.org/newsletter/member-roster/.

This newsletter belongs to all MHS/SMHR members.  For information that you like to share with other MHS/SMHR members, please send the material by e-mail to Naihua.Duan@Columbia.Edu.

Best regards,

Robert Gibbons, University of Chicago, rdg@uchicago.edu
Naihua Duan, Columbia University, naihua.duan@columbia.edu