About ASA The American Statistical Association ( ASA ), a scientific and educational society founded in Boston in 1839, is the second-oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States. For 170 years, the ASA has provided its members and the public with up-to-date, useful information about statistics. The ASA has a proud tradition of service to statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across a wealth of academic areas and applications. The ASA mission is to promote excellence in the application of statistical science across the wealth of human endeavor, specifically to: