From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Hira L. Koul, President of the Indian Statistical Association, writes: The Indian Statistical Association was established in 1960 at Bombay (now Mumbai). The late Professor M.C. Chakrabarty, the founding Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Bombay, was its first Secretary and Prof. A. M. Kshirsagar was the first…
In this column, Terry Speed recalls his vow always to look at a scatter plot before calculating a Pearson correlation.
The Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) invites nominations for the 2012 Mortimer Spiegelman Award honoring a statistician, 40 years of age or younger, who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics.
The award was established in 1970 and is presented annually at…
Funding is available from the U.S. National Science Foundation for a block travel grant to help in defraying the travel costs of junior researchers, women, and members of underrepresented minorities from the United States participating in the 8th World Congress on Probability and Statistics, July 9—14, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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We are pleased to announce a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics. The issue is to be titled Innovative Methodology in Modern Applications. The idea is to present original contributed work and specially invited papers from leading researchers on statistical methodology developed for modern areas…