From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
We introduce the first two in a series of IMS special lecture previews for 2018. Richard Samworth and Thomas Mikosch are two of this year’s Medallion Lecturers. Both of them will be giving their Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018. The program will be…
Observational Studies, an IMS-affiliated journal, has an updated website. Check it out at https://obs.pennpress.org/home/. Observational Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes manuscripts on all aspects of observational studies. The journal is open access and has no publication charges. Papers are posted to the website rapidly when accepted.…
Yoram Gat’s third column considers whether democracy would be better served by sortition:
For about 2,500 years, statistical sampling was closely linked with democracy. “Selection by lot is natural to democracy, as that by choice [i.e., elections] is to aristocracy,” asserted Aristotle in the 4th century BC, following his own…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
My sabbatical orientation at Lugano (see the last XL-Files) boosted my over-confidence into double digits. Anyone who asked about my sabbatical plan would get an ambitious answer: that I would complete 14 articles during my sabbatical year. The year is now (at the time of writing)…
Bhramar Mukherjee from University of Michigan writes: Congratulations to Tyler J. VanderWeele of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award. This award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies of the Committee of Presidents …