TY - JOUR
T1 - Statistics
T2 - From evidence to policy
AU - Morton, Sally C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We will ask that statistical literacy be promoted in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization, formerly known as No Child Left Behind. We will also ask that the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health receive sufficient funding increases to support their missions.
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - The discipline of statistics, we as individual statisticians, and the American Statistical Association (ASA) have been called to action. We can and must play a vital part in the gathering, analysis, interpretation, and communication of evidence for informed policy decisions. I ask you to answer yes and to take on the role of an honest broker of policy alternatives. I ask you to support a proactive engagement by the ASA in informing policy. While interaction in policy forums by the ASA is an opportunity to integrate the science of statistics into policy, it also represents a responsibility, because the association serves not only its members, but also the public. Statistics can have a major impact in the journey from evidence to policy. A current illustration in the evidence-based medicine context is comparative effectiveness research, which received focus and funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The time is now for us to take action as a discipline, as individuals, and as an association to ensure that policy decisions are driven by evidence.
AB - The discipline of statistics, we as individual statisticians, and the American Statistical Association (ASA) have been called to action. We can and must play a vital part in the gathering, analysis, interpretation, and communication of evidence for informed policy decisions. I ask you to answer yes and to take on the role of an honest broker of policy alternatives. I ask you to support a proactive engagement by the ASA in informing policy. While interaction in policy forums by the ASA is an opportunity to integrate the science of statistics into policy, it also represents a responsibility, because the association serves not only its members, but also the public. Statistics can have a major impact in the journey from evidence to policy. A current illustration in the evidence-based medicine context is comparative effectiveness research, which received focus and funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The time is now for us to take action as a discipline, as individuals, and as an association to ensure that policy decisions are driven by evidence.
KW - American Statistical Association
KW - Comparative effectiveness
KW - Evidence-based decision making
KW - Evidence-based medicine
KW - Politics
KW - Statistical literacy
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U2 - 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09811
DO - 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09811
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77952558664
SN - 0162-1459
VL - 105
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Journal of the American Statistical Association
JF - Journal of the American Statistical Association
IS - 489
ER -