Dear Members of the IMPUTE listserv: If you are a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), I would like to invite you to join a petition to the ASA to establish a new ASA section on Mental Health Statistics which will serve as a forum for statisticians who are interested in in mental health research, to communicate with each other, share ideas, organize professional activities, promote career development, advance the field, etc.
If you are interested, please review the article "Petition for ASA Section" in our newsletter, at http://smhr.org/newsletter/2011/10/28/petition-for-asa-section-updated/ . (Please note that we have decided to use the name "Mental Health Statistics", instead of SMHR, to reflect a broader scope of the proposed new section.) If you agree to join in this petition, please copy and paste the petition form below into an e-mail, fill in the info, then send it to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> . * * * * * * * * * * * * To Whom It May Concern: I am currently a member of the ASA, and I support the petition to establish an ASA Section ?Mental Health Statistics (MHS)?. If the proposed Section is approved, I intend to be actively involved in the Section, at least in terms of attending occasional meetings, and paying Sectional dues of up to six dollars each year, with a lower rate for students. _______________________________________________ [Name] _______________________________________________ [Affiliation] _______________________________________________ [E-mail address] _______________________________________________ [ASA member ID #]* * Your ASA member ID # can be located in ASA?s online Member Directory, http://amstat.org/membership/directory/index.cfm. Alternatively, you can also find the member ID # from ASA?s mailing label. In case you cannot locate your ASA member ID #, please just leave it blank; ASA staff will assist us to locate it. Again, thanks very much for your support. We look forward to the opportunity to work with you to develop this proposed new ASA section into a valuable forum for the membership and the field. Best regards, Robert Gibbons and Naihua Duan
