From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians: Films of Dr. Stephen E. Fienberg for ASA’s Archive
Pfizer Global Research and Development at New London, Connecticut, the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut–Storrs, and the American Statistical Association (ASA) continue to sponsor the prestigious series, Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians. Dr.…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
My new year’s reading started with a holiday gift: On the Money, a collection of over 400 cartoons in The New Yorker from 1925–2009. No, after months of learning about fundraising, money was least alluring on a day when my alarm clock took a…
George Casella, a leading figure in the field of statistics, passed away on June 17, 2012, after a nine-year battle with multiple myeloma. He was 61.
George’s influence on research and education in statistics was broad and profound. During his career, George published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals; he…
Radu V Craiu, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, considers whether statisticians need a new image:
We keep hearing stories about insomniac surgeons, smug lawyers who all happen to be very well-dressed, overall-clad artists who are sleeping on their friends’ sofas until they make it big. While partially rejecting these…
Qatar hosted the 12th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences. Shahjahan Khan (Australia), Ali S Hadi (Egypt), and Ayman Bakleezi (Qatar) report on the conference:
Qatar is the first country in the Arabian Gulf to host any statistics conference organized by the Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS). The…