From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Anirban DasGupta writes:
I thought it would be revealing and entertaining to look at the recently concluded US midterm election results and make some conclusions. Who is voting Republican? What is, really, the Republican base? And what about the Democrats? Are the bases entirely disjoint? Is the base more scattered…
Michael P. Cohen, American Institutes for Research, is a founding member of a new group, and he would like you to join him:
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has a brand new History of Statistics Interest Group (HoSIG). Membership in ASA is not required to join. Anyone interested in the…
Frank Rudolf Hampel, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, passed away in Thalwil near Zurich, Switzerland, on October 2, at the age of 77.
Frank Hampel was well known for his fundamental contributions to robust statistics, in particular for the introduction of the basic concepts of influence function and breakdown point.…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College London) has been thinking about the ethical, social and policy challenges associated with the rise and rise of “big data”:
Data ethics seem to be the flavour of the month. In the UK alone, the establishment of the National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory…
There is still time to nominate your outstanding colleagues and collaborators IMS Fellowship or for the Carver medal.
A candidate for the IMS Fellowship [see Philip Protter’s article here]shall have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability, by publication of independent work of merit. This qualification may be…