From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The April/May 2012 Bulletin is now online. Contents include:
• IMS Elections• IMS Tweedie Award: Huixia Wang• Members’ News: Ming Yuan, Allan Sly, Sebastien Roch, CR Rao• Author Identity and Open Bibliography• Obituary: Franklin Graybill• Statistical Issues in Assessing Hospital Performance• Anirban’s Angle: Learning from a Student• Parzen Prize• Recent…
The PDF version of the April/May 2012 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF from the archives here.…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Huixia Judy Wang as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Huixia received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University.
The…
Featuring news items about Ming Yuan, Allan Sly, Sebastien Roch, CR Rao
COPSS-CMS white paper released
The white paper “Statistical Issues in Assessing Hospital Performance” has been released. The paper was commissioned by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies at the request of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The COPSS–CMS White Paper Committee included: Arlene S. Ash, Stephen…