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Stéphane Boucheron works in the Statistics Group at the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Université Paris Diderot. He writes as one of our team of Contributing Editors: Since 2011, the growing hype around Big Data has provoked mixed reactions among statisticians. For a while, there will be jobs in…

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Xiaoming Huo, Program Director for Statistics, Computational and Data-enabled Science & Engineering at NSF, writes: CDS&E-MSS (Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) is a relatively new funding opportunity that is managed by the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its…

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Contributing Editor David J. Hand writes: George Box once said “You have a big approximation and a small approximation. The big approximation is your approximation to the problem you want to solve. The small approximation is involved in getting the solution to the approximate problem.” In a similar vein, John…

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The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search. Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). Deadline May 1, 2014. The names and affiliations of

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COPSS 50th Anniversary Volume: Past, Present and Future of Statistical Science Co-editors: Xihong Lin, Christian Genest, David Banks, Geert Molenberghs, David Scott, and Jane-Ling Wang This book entitled Past, Present and Future of Statistical Science was commissioned in 2013 by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to celebrate…

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