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Spiegelman, Tobin, James, Sheather, Wexler, and Roundhill win 2008 Statistics in Chemistry Award for Annals of Applied Statistics Article. The 2008 Statistics in Chemistry Award goes to Cliff Spiegelman, William A. Tobin, William D. James, Simon J. Sheather, Stuart Wexler, and D. Max Roundhill for “Chemical and forensic analysis…

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Richard A. Johnson, Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin­Madison, has been selected to receive the 2008 Carver Medal from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The presentation of the medal will take place July 14, 2008 at a special ceremony at the IMS Annual Meeting…

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The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA) will hold a writing workshop for junior researchers. The goal of the workshop is to provide instruction in how to write journal articles and grant proposals. Participants will be required to provide a recent sample of their…

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The IMS is pleased to announce the 2008 Laha Award recipients. Each awardee will present a paper at the 2008 World Congress/IMS Annual Meeting in Singapore. Paul Baines David Croydon Chongzhi Di Siegfried Hoermann Silja Kinnebrock Chen Quin (Eric) Lam Qunhua Li Tyler McCormick Pál Rakonczai Daniel Remenik Deena Schmidt…

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The Annals of Applied Statistics releasing key article in authenticating tomb. In 1980 a burial tomb was unearthed in Jerusalem containing ossuaries (limestone coffins) bearing inscriptions indicating that it may be Jesus’ crypt. Last year, the Discovery Channel aired a documentary entitled “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” describing…

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