From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
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Shahjahan Khan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, reports on the workshop on Evidence-based Decision and Statistical Meta-Analysis with Application, sponsored by the Government of Brunei:
The Department of Planning, Development and Research (DPDR) of the Ministry of Education, Government of Brunei Darussalam, organised a three-day workshop on Evidence-based Decision and…
Once again Terry Speed is discovering that it’s never too late to learn new things in statistics
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_2.pdf
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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Rina Foygel Barber as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Barber received her PhD in 2012 from the University of Chicago, where she is now Assistant Professor of Statistics: see https://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~rina/. The IMS Travel Awards Committee selected Dr.…