From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
The annual elections are taking place for the next IMS President and six places in the IMS Council. We introduce the candidates in the March 2017 IMS Bulletin and at this link.
Voting opens soon—look out for the email with your personalized link—and closes June 16.…
Congratulations to IMS Fellow, Professor David Finney, who celebrated his 100th birthday on 16 December 2016. David Finney pioneered the development of systems monitoring drug safety; his work has greatly influenced the monitoring systems now in place. His two best known books are Probit Analysis (1947) and Statistical Method in…
We are pleased to announce the next Executive Secretary will be Edsel Peña. Edsel is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. He will take over from Aurore Delaigle, who will have served two three-year terms, this August. The responsibilities of the…
IMS Fellow Alastair Scott has been awarded the Jones Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) for his lifetime contribution to statistics.
The medal selection committee acknowledged that Professor Scott is a world leader in survey sampling theory and analysis of case control studies. His methods are used…
This article is written by Chris Pankow (Northwestern University), Will M. Farr (University of Birmingham, AL) and Ben Farr (University of Chicago). Richard A. Davis, IMS Past President, explains: “Last February, former IMS Bulletin editor Anirban DasGupta wanted to publish an article about the role of statistics in the recent …