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Dayanand N. Naik, who was a Professor of Statistics at Old Dominion University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, passed away on Friday, October 26, 2012, after a three-year battle with prostate cancer. He is survived by his wife, Sujatha, and his two sons, Naveen, 16, and Rishi, 10,…

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Deadline: April 15, 2013 There are still two sessions in the JSM program to be determined. These Late-Breaking Sessions must cover one or more technical, scientific, or policy-related topics that arose in the one-year period prior to JSM 2013. To submit a late-breaking session proposal, please see this post in…

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IMS Collections 9: From Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes — A Festschrift in Honor of Jon A. Wellner Editors: M. Banerjee, F. Bunea, J. Huang, V. Koltchinskii, M.H. Maathuis Read free online, or order a print copy ($107.80) at: http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&page=toc&handle=euclid.imsc/1362751167 For more than thirty years, Jon…

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2013 Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences Call for Nominations The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), are pleased to request nominations for the Twelfth Annual Janet…

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In this issue, Terry Speed surveys the history of least squares, which has applications to life, the universe and everything…

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