From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Senegal course on Records Theory: foundation, estimation, prediction and characterization
The Department of Applied Mathematics and LERSTAD (Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches en Statistiques et Développement) at the Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal) hosted an invited international course on Records Theory (foundation, estimation, prediction and characterization). This international post-graduate…
The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2017 Rao Prize Conference on May 12, 2017, where three outstanding prize recipients were honored. The 2017 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize recipient was Donald B. Rubin, the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. Paul R. Rosenbaum…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng has attended some great meetings, with exotic acronyms, over the summer. He writes:
No, these are not Chinglish or Pinyin. If you haven’t heard of ISIPTA-ECSQARU, then you are in the good company of 95–99% of statisticians and probabilists. I certainly hadn’t, until BFF4 (https://imstat.org/2017/05/xl-files-bayesian-fiducial-and-frequentist-bff4ever/…
The October/November 2017 issue of the IMS Bulletin is online. You can read the whole issue as a PDF (download from http://www.imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/bulletin/Bulletin46_7.pdf) or read articles online at http://bulletin.imstat.org. Contents include:
President’s Message: Alison Etheridge
Members’ News: Donald Rubin, Paul Rosenbaum, Satish Iyengar, Karen Kafadar, Walter Rosenkrantz
Nomination for…
A new issue of THE ANNALS of PROBABILITY has been published.You get a summary in pdf-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_45_5.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/For more information on journals published or supported by the…