Terence’s Stuff: Correlation
In this column, Terry Speed recalls his vow always to look at a scatter plot before calculating a Pearson correlation.
Read More...World Congress: register now
The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics) will be held on July 9–14, 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. Scheduled every four years, it is jointly organized by IMS and the [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: January/February 2012
Featuring news items about Itai Benjamini, Johan Fellman, Michael Akritas, S.N. Lahiri, Dimitris Politis, Jerome Reiter, Alan Karr, S. Rao Jammalamadaka, and the IMS online journals Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability
Read More...Piled Higher and Deeper
Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham. This cartoon, originally published at www.phdcomics.com, echoes the sentiments in Terry Speed’s last column. You can read what he has to say [ More.. ]
Read More...Museum of Mathematics open to ideas
When we heard about the new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) that is being built in New York, a museum that bills itself as “an exciting project that will change the [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Charles B. Bell, 1928–2010
Charles Bernard Bell, Jr. was born in New Orleans on August 20, 1928. To the statistical community he was affectionately called “Chuck.” He graduated from Xavier University at an early [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Paul Meier, 1924–2011
Columbia University professor emeritus Paul Meier, renowned for his work in applying statistics to medical research, died on Sunday, August 7, 2011, in New York City. He was 87. The [ More.. ]
Read More...IMU seeks feedback on journal ranking system
We would like to bring the following message to the attention of IMS members as it may be of interest, especially in view of Peter Hall’s Presidential Address at JSM [ More.. ]
Read More...Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture at Harvard School of Public Health
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture is named in memory of a former faculty member in Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics who died of cancer in 1992, aged 34. Each year [ More.. ]
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Looking
In this column, Terry Speed argues against the temptation to avoid looking hard at larger data sets. Seek…and find answers!
Read More...New Schramm Lecture in Probability and Stochastic Processes
The IMS and the Bernoulli Society have recently cooperated to create a new joint lecture in probability and stochastic processes, named in honor of Oded Schramm. The lecture will be [ More.. ]
Read More...Loève Prize
The 2011 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded to Scott Sheffield of M.I.T. The prize, which carries a monetary award of $30,000, will be presented at [ More.. ]
Read More...Members’ News: December 2011
Featuring news items about Krzysztof Burdzy, Laurent Saloff-Coste, Michel Ledoux, Anton Bovier, Michael Longnecker, James J. Cochran, Xuming He
Read More...Eugene Dynkin interviews available online
Cornell Library digitizes historic collection of Eugene Dynkin interviews Cornell University Library has acquired a collection of interviews of mathematicians conducted over many years by Eugene Dynkin, Cornell’s Emeritus A. [ More.. ]
Read More...New Stochastic Systems journal
Editor-in-Chief of the new Stochastic Systems journal is Peter W. Glynn, Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He writes: The IMS and the Applied [ More.. ]
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