STAT-HAWKERS at the JSM-2015, Seattle, USA

Figure 1 shows the front side of the booth on the very last day, August 13, 2015, when Augustus Jayaraj joined Cheon-Sig Lee and Sarjinder Singh with 40 elephants. There were already 100 monkeys of different colors, 100 female giraffes, 100 male giraffes, and 100 spidermen. There were also three dozen flashing balls and 100 tiny bears. For the first three days, these toys were given freely to the children who visited the booth, and on the last day the remaining toys were given freely to anyone who visited the booth and asked for the toys. Almost 400 pens marked with the logo “MASA: An International Journal” were distributed among the attendees to advertise the journal, “Model Assisted Statistics and Applications” (IOS Press, The Netherlands), as well as sample copies of the journal, flyers, and CDs that included sample journals from IOS Press. One-year open access to the journal MASA was given to one student, the “JSM Student Door Prize Winner.” Additionally, a few more journals and books by IOS Press were displayed and distributed freely among the attendees. There were 45 calendars (4 feet x 3 feet) advertising a new MS program, “Master’s Program in Statistical Analytics, Computing and Modeling”, which began in Fall 2015 at the Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, that were distributed among the conference attendees. A few attendees had trouble carrying them due to their size. Almost 100 calendars, each 17 inches x 11 inches, were also distributed. There were 50 (8 GB) USB drives that were given to the attendees. Of these, 15 were give as door-prizes during the student mixture. Almost 300 flyers advertising the textbook “Thinking Statistically: Elephants Go to School”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa, were distributed among the attendees. A long 8 foot x 2 foot banner was used to advertise this textbook, which can be seen in Figure 3 on the left side of the booth. The monograph by Sarjinder Singh,