Joseph F. Heyse, a respected and influential leader in biopharmaceutical statistics, passed away May 31, 2019. He was 67.
Joe Heyse joined Merck & Co., Inc., in 1976 as a statistician supporting preclinical research and immediately began to develop statistical methods that subsequently became industry standards. In 1987, Joe began…
Megan Othus reports:
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS was hosted by Oregon Health Science University from June 23–26, with over 280 participants. In addition to WNAR’s yearly partnership with IMS, this year we also partnered with the Japanese Region (JR) of IBS to promote international collaborations. There were…
Antonio (Tuca) Auffinger and Greg Lawler report:
Northwestern University hosted the 41st Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference July 8 –12, 2019, with 277 registered participants coming from 34 different countries. The most represented were the USA, Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the UK. The conference program consisted of 13 plenary…
The IMS funds travel awards for early-career researchers, and some of this year’s recipients have written about their experiences. Read about the Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award and IMS New Researcher Travel Award at https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/.
Ting Ye, University of Wisconsin–Madison, attended ENAR 2019 using a Hannan Travel Award. Ting…
A new issue of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bjps/bjps_33_4/bjps_33_4.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/
For more information on journals published…