Rick’s Ramblings: The Academic Software Razzies
Each year in Los Angeles, on the night before the Oscars ceremony, the Golden Raspberry Awards—“Razzies”—are awarded to the worst of what Hollywood has to offer that year. In 2011, [ More.. ]
Read More...C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize
The C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize was established to honor and recognize outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical [ More.. ]
Read More...SAMSI announces 2013–14 Programs
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) announces the two programs for the 2013–14 year will be Computational Methods in Social Science, and Low-Dimensional Structure in High-Dimensional Systems. The [ More.. ]
Read More...JSM 2013 Invited Session proposals sought
Bhramar Mukherjee is JSM Program Chair for the 2013 meeting in Montreal. She writes: The 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held in Montreal, Canada. Standing in the province [ More.. ]
Read More...Homeward Bound? Cramér–Rao Bound!
For a little light relief, Peter Kootsookos wrote this version in honor of C. R. Rao. It’s adapted from the Simon and Garfunkel song “Homeward Bound”
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Multiple Linear Regression, 1
With this column, Terry Speed would love to spark a revival of Yule’s new system of notation. Well, it was “new” 105 years ago…
Read More...Terence’s Stuff: Barley, hops, yeast and water
Terry Speed writes in honor of William Sealy Gossett: statistician, Guinness brewer, and thoroughly decent chap. Raise a glass to “Student”
Read More...June/July 2012 Bulletin online now
The PDF version of the June/July 2012 IMS Bulletin is online now: click this link to download the complete PDF.
Read More...Members’ News: June/July 2012
Featuring news items about Robert Tibshirani, Ruth Williams, Tom Liggett, Snehalata Huzurbazar, Hui Zou, Søren Asmussen, Dimitris Politis, Ken Burnham
Read More...Report: Peter Hall’s course at Peking University
Invited by the Center for Statistical Science at Peking University, Professor Peter Hall delivered a short course on “Methodology and Theory for the Bootstrap” from March 15th to 24th, 2012. [ More.. ]
Read More...IMS Fellows announced
The IMS Committee on Fellows is pleased to announce that they have selected 17 new IMS Fellows for 2012. Congratulations to all! David B. Allison of the University of Alabama [ More.. ]
Read More...Obituary: Thomas Cover, 1938–2012
Thomas Cover, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University, died on March 26, aged 73, following a short illness. Cover arrived at Stanford from MIT as [ More.. ]
Read More...SPA2013: book your hotel early
Brian Rider is chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, to be held from July 29 to August 2, 2013, in [ More.. ]
Read More...Rick’s Ramblings: Why Prove Theorems?
Rick Durrett writes: Picture this: it was the ides of March, a sunny day in Durham, the day before the most frequent Google search from the Duke campus was “Where [ More.. ]
Read More...Treasurer’s Report: Fiscal Year 2011
The IMS Treasurer, Jean Opsomer, reports on IMS membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2011, and reviews the fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011) [ More.. ]
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