From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Reminder that Stat Sci ‘Conversations’ are available on website
If you’re reading this, you’re probably already an IMS member, and as such, have set up your free access to all IMS journals, past and present. But did you know that all Statistical Science ‘Conversations’ are now open to the public…
IMS member Jonathan Skinner has taught a free statistics class (“without math”) as part of the offerings at his local food coop, in order to spread the good word, for the past several years. He writes:
I am a retired statistician with a PhD in mathematics (1970). It struck my…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College London) counters the argument that the numbers speak for themselves: indeed they can, but they can also lie…
In 2008, in an article in Wired magazine, Chris Anderson famously wrote that “with enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.” This was in the…
The 40th Stochastic Processes and their Applications Conference, SPA-2018, took place June 11–15, 2018, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Sergei Zuyev, the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of SPA-2018, reports:
Conferences on stochastic processes and their applications are organised under patronage of the Bernoulli Society and IMS; they can justifiably be…
IMS Fellow Xihong Lin was among those elected as members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the three United States Academies, along with Science and Engineering. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals…