Abstract
Here I share a recollection of memories, annotated with appropriate photographs, from the seventh-booth STAT-HAWKERS at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM)-2017 held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, during July 29–August 3, 2017. This year, I drove my car from Kingsville, TX, to Baltimore, Maryland, with a lot of promotional material which included T-Shirts, Toys, Hats, Calendars, etc. On July 29, I setup the booth, decorated with flashing lights, displayed calendars and posters to advertise the monograph “A new concept for tuning design weights in survey sampling” published by Elsevier during 2015. It was also decorated by a 100 yard long ribbon which had pictures of elephants and pumpkins. The other textbook, “Thinking Statistically: Elephants Go to School”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa, was also displayed on the front counter. The monograph “Advanced Sampling Theory with Applications: How Michael Selected Amy” was also made available for the conference attendees. T-shirt was adverting the MS Program Statistical Analytics Computing and Modeling offered by the Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, TX. Additional promotional material such as key-rings with flash lights and lanyards were distributed during the conference time.
It is unbelievable advertisement of the journal “Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, IOS Press, The Netherlands” which was done by distributing flyers, and making it available to the attendees in hard-printed copy on the front desk.
In Fig. 1, Sarjinder Singh is standing at the front side of the booth.
Sarjinder Singh at the front side of the booth at JSM 2017, Baltimore, Maryland.
In Fig. 2, there are a few toys which are visible, but there were many types of toys this year which were distributed during the conference. To my knowledge, no one left without a toy of their choice who visited the booth.
Some promotional material available at the booth.
Figure 3 shows the presence of Stan Lipovetsky and Augustus Jayaraj at the JSM 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Left to right: Stan Lipovetsky, Sarjinder Singh and Augustus Jayaraj.
Stan is not very talkative person, like me, and he did not tell me any new story except sharing the amount of work he is doing to make the journal progressing. I have no hesitation in telling that since 2008 it is most of his contribution to keep the journal alive. He is very good in keeping the track of the submitted papers, sending reminders to the reviewers, and making every issue possible on time. Sometime I receive very nice complements from the authors of MASA articles who dealt with him for publishing their work. It is interesting to mention that he is doing all this work voluntarily.
An additional purpose of the booth is to advertise our research activities, see Fig. 4.
Sarjinder Singh (Left) collecting data from using two-decks and black box technique, and Augustus Jayaraj (right) participating in the survey as one of the conference attendee.
Detail of the results obtained from the collected data set can be seen in (Jayaraj et al. 2017). In addition, Singh and Sedory (2017) contributed a new methodology entitled, TRUMP: Tune ratio unbiased mean predictor, which many people enjoyed. If God blessed, we will be discussing continuation to TRUMP methodology at JSM 2018, Vancouver, Canada.
This is the annual continuation report by the Stat-Hawkers (Editorial Report). The help from Anna Sojkowska from IOS Press in promoting the journal, “Model Assisted Statistics and Applications: An International Journal”, is hereby duly acknowledged.
Thank you for reading the report, and hope to see you at Vancouver (JSM-2018) conference.