Support of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics

美国国家科学院应用和理论统计委员会(CATS)是研究企业和依赖统计科学的联邦机构之间的主要接口。委员会就如何最好地将统计工具和观点应用于对国家具有重要意义的实际问题提供客观和权威的建议。通过这样做，CATS加强了决策过程；提高了统计科学的能见度和鉴赏力；并确定了该学科的增长领域。CATS提高了统计科学在联邦政府各机构和政策界的知名度，并使统计学家能够在科学政策中发挥更大的作用。它让领先的统计科学家参加研讨会和研究，帮助联邦决策者解决他们的技术挑战，从而做到这一点。通过履行这项职能，CATS加强和扩大了统计研究界和这些研究成果的广泛用户之间的联系。CATS由来自统计科学范围内的公益专家组成，特别是那些具有与数据科学、物理科学、地球科学、工程学、生物医学研究和保健相关的专业知识的专家。CATS会议提供了建立上述接口的机会，并帮助设计和监督CATS活动，这些活动是单独资助的。作为国家科学院、工程院和医学会的一部分，CATS还通过让统计学家参与多学科研究、研讨会和会议，加强统计科学与其他科学、工程和医学领域之间的联系。

The National Academies' Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) is a primary interface between the research enterprise and federal agencies that rely on the statistical sciences. The Committee provides objective and authoritative advice on how best to apply the tools and perspectives of statistics to practical problems of national importance. In so doing, CATS strengthens the policy-making process; increases the visibility of, and appreciation for, the statistical sciences; and identifies growth areas for the discipline. CATS increases the visibility of the statistical sciences among agencies of the federal government and within the policy community and enables statisticians to play larger roles in science policy. It does this by involving leading statistical scientists in workshops and studies that help federal decision-makers address their technical challenges. Through its execution of this function, CATS strengthens and broadens the interface between the statistics research community and widespread users of those research results.CATS consists of pro bono experts from across the range of statistical sciences, particularly those with expertise related to data science, physical sciences, Earth sciences, engineering, biomedical research, and health care. CATS meetings provide opportunities to build the interfaces noted above and to help design and oversee CATS activities, which are funded separately. Its position as part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine enables CATS to also strengthen links between the statistical sciences and other fields of science, engineering, and medicine by involving statisticians in multidisciplinary studies, workshops, and conferences.