Bimal K. Roy, Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, writes:
Sankhya Series A plans to publish a special issue on Application of Concentration Inequalities and Empirical Processes to Modern Statistics as Part II of Volume 78, scheduled to come out in August 2016. The special issue will contain five invited…
Contributing Editor David Hand explains that while statistics as a field is not impossible, it is often misunderstood:
The importance of public understanding of science, and of outreach activities more generally, is now widely accepted. Much research funding comes from public sources, so there’s an obligation to ensure that the…
Yes, you read that right. Contributing editor Vlada Limic continues her series of columns on workSHOPS, WORKshops and a neologism: learnering…
Workshops (by which I mean workshops) will be organized as long as there is available funding for them. The reader is welcome to ask if this is a…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Some events in life repeat, although not necessarily in an i.i.d.* fashion. For some unlucky or lucky ones (see my last XL-Files) this has been a season of repeated storms and flu. A trip to London had to be canceled because the flu bug, with her…