Obituary: Donald L. Burkholder, 1927–2013
Donald Lyman Burkholder died in his sleep on April 14, 2013, in Urbana, Illinois. He was born January 19, 1927, in Octavia, Nebraska, the fourth of five children of Elmer [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Martin B. Wilk, 1922–2013
Martin B. Wilk, OC, died in Yorba Linda, California, on February 19, 2013; he was 90. Throughout his career, Martin demonstrated that a statistician can successfully span academia, industry and [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Damaraju Raghavarao, 1938–2013
Professor Damaraju Raghavarao, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Statistics in Fox School of Business, Temple University, died suddenly from cardiac arrest brought on by flu on February 6, 2013. [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Bob Blumenthal, 1931–2012
Robert McCallum Blumenthal passed away on November 8, 2012 at the age of 81, after a long illness. Bob, as he was known to one and all, was a mathematician [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Dayanand Naik, 1952–2012
Dayanand N. Naik, who was a Professor of Statistics at Old Dominion University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, passed away on Friday, October 26, 2012, after a three-year [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: George Casella, 1951-2012
George Casella, a leading figure in the field of statistics, passed away on June 17, 2012, after a nine-year battle with multiple myeloma. He was 61. George’s influence on research [ More.. ]
Read More...Blackwell Lecture
Contributing Editor Peter Bickel writes: David Blackwell died on July 8, 2010. Since that time there have been a number of celebrations of his life and accomplishments: memorial sessions in [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: W. Jackson Hall 1930–2012
W. Jackson “Jack” Hall, PhD, Fellow of the IMS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester, died peacefully [ More.. ]
Read More...George Casella, 1951-2012
IMS Fellow George Casella passed away on June 17, aged 61, after a nine-year battle with multiple myeloma. George was born in Bronx, NY, where he attended the Bronx High [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Kesar Singh, 1955–2012
Kesar Singh, a beloved colleague, friend, teacher and extraordinary researcher, left us forever, and far too soon, on Wednesday May 16, 2012. Kesar had had a massive heart attack the [ More.. ]
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