The american statistical association's response to the challenges of improving quality

Abstract

The American Statistical. Association recently created a Comittee on Quality and Productivity This committee has beguna large number of activities that will bed escribed in this talk. Inaddition, the American Statistical Association hasunde taken alarge -scale project on Quantitatve Literacy that will also be described in this talk. Finally, some challenges in educating thegeneral publicin statistical reasoning will be discussed.

Keywords:

• quality
• productivity
• quantitative literacy
• statistical education