Federal Statistics Fellowship Program

该奖项延续了美国国家科学基金会对美国统计协会联邦统计奖学金计划的支持。该项目还得到了美国人口普查局、劳工统计局和国家教育统计中心的支持。该计划的总体目标是促进合作和跨学科的研究努力，这将继续促进与联邦统计机构寻求提供信息的问题相关的方法和社会科学研究的发展和进步。该计划通过将学术研究人员引入支持联邦统计机构，与机构统计学家和社会科学家就共同感兴趣的问题进行长达一年的合作来实现这一目标。该研究奖学金计划的几个具体目标包括：通过建立研究奖学金，将具有不同学术背景的科学家引入联邦机构，为学术学者提供“动手”访问联邦机构数据的独特机会；提高每一机构收集和散发的数据的质量；发展一个研究小组，以便日后招聘统计学家和其他研究科学家，以配合政府的需要；鼓励学术界就收集和分析为作出可对社会产生重大影响的决策提供基本信息的数据问题进行方法论和实质性研究；增加联邦机构之间以及联邦机构与学术机构之间的互动和合作研究与教育。

This award continues NSF support for the American Statistical Association's Federal Statistics Fellowship Program. The program also is supported by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Center for Education Statistics. The general objective of the program is to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research efforts that will continue to stimulate the development and advancement of methodology and social science research relevant to issues on which Federal statistical agencies seek to provide information. The program accomplishes this by bringing academic researchers into the supporting federal statistical agencies to work with agency statisticians and social scientists for up to one year on problems of mutual interest.Several specific objectives of this research fellowship program include: to provide academic scholars with the unique opportunity to have "hands on" access to federal agency data through the establishment of research fellowships that bring scientists with diverse academic backgrounds to the agencies; to bring about an improvement of the quality of the data collected and disseminated by each agency; to develop a research group of personnel for the future recruitment of statisticians and other research scientists to help fill government needs; to stimulate methodological and substantive research in academia on the problems of collecting and analyzing data that provide the basic information for making decisions that can have significant effects on society; and to increase the interaction and collaborative research and education among federal agencies and between federal agencies and academic institutions.