SUPPORT THE COMMITTE ON APPLIED AND THEORETICAL STATISTICS

应用和理论统计委员会(CATS)组织研究和研讨会，提供高质量的统计科学建议，帮助指导主要的政府项目。其中一些项目支持统计科学界，但另一些项目还没有与之建立牢固的联系。CATS的活动由专门为每个特定活动量身定做的专家委员会进行，总体上调查现有的研究前沿并建议加强或应用它们的最佳步骤；审查联邦计划并提出改进建议；和/或向依赖于数学科学界的联邦计划提供战略建议。总体而言，CATS的使命是通过使用现代统计思维来管理和减少国家决策中的不确定性，并培育一个充满活力的统计科学研究企业。后一个目标要求统计科学学科与其他科学、工程和医学领域紧密联系，吸收来自这些其他领域的挑战，并保持强大的核心。CATS致力于加强社区的这些属性。

The Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) organizes studies and workshops that provide top-quality statistical science advice to help guide major government programs. Some of those programs support the statistical science community, but others do not yet have strong ties to it. CATS activities are carried out by specially appointed committees of experts tailored for each particular activity and in general survey existing research frontiers and recommend best steps for strengthening or applying them; review federal programs and recommend improvements; and/or provide strategic advice to federal programs that depend on the mathematical sciences community.Overall, the mission of CATS is to manage and reduce uncertainty in national decision-making through the use of modern statistical thinking and to nurture a vibrant statistical sciences research enterprise. The latter goal calls for a statistical sciences discipline that is well-connected with other fields of science, engineering, and medicine; absorbs challenges from those other fields; and maintains a robust core. CATS works to strengthen these attributes of the community.