From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Dan Nettleton, Laurence H. Baker Endowed Chair in Biological Statistics and Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, co-organized this conference in May that was co-sponsored by the IMS. He writes:
The Conference on New Statistical Methods for Next Generation Sequencing Data was held on May 11,…
Nominations are open for the L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics; Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize for Excellence in Math by an Undergraduate Woman; and the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science.
The newly-elected committee of IMS-China has 16 members (two members tied in number of votes). The Chair-elect of the IMS-China Committee is Shuyuan He. The Program Secretary is Zenghu Li and the Treasurer is Fuzhou Gong. IMS-China Committee members are: Mingyao Ai, Hengjian Cui, Junyi Guo, Xianping Guo, Taizhong Hu,…
IMS has published a second IMS Monographs volume, Nonparametric Inference on Manifolds, with Applications to Shape Spaces, by Abhishek Bhattacharya, ISI Kolkata, and Rabi Bhattacharya, University of Arizona.
IMS members are entitled to a discounted rate: $48.00 (reduced from $80.00) using this link.
This book introduces in a systematic…
With this column, Terry Speed continues his exploration of multiple linear regression, looking at “why,” “how” and idol management.