From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Our fourth profile of IMS Fellows who were elected in May to the US National Academy of Sciences is devoted to Nancy Reid. Christian Genest from McGill University, Montréal, Canada, writes about her:
Nancy Reid became in May the first Canadian-based statistician to be elected to membership in the US…
The Electronic Journal of Statistics, Volume 10, number 2, contains a Special Section entitled “Statistical Inference in Sparse High-Dimensional Models”. This special section has been co-edited by Florentina Bunea and Marloes Maathuis and contains invited papers that originated from the 2013–2014 SAMSI program on Low-Dimensional Structures in High-Dimensional Systems, and…
As we reported in the previous issue, the 2016 George Box Medal has been awarded to one of our contributing editors, David Hand. This medal is awarded by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics for outstanding contributions to industrial statistics (see http://www.enbis.org/awards/george_box_medal/?_ts=18012)
David Hand is well-known…
Vlada Limic closes her mini-series on ways to improve the peer review process. (Since she is taking over as Editor of the IMS Bulletin, Vlada is also ending her time as a contributing editor.) She writes:
Let me start by expanding on the concluding thought from Episode II…
Access to the Current Index to Statistics (CIS) <http://statindex.org> will become open to the public effective January 1, 2017. Subscription fees will no longer be charged for any user. CIS will remain open until December 31, 2019 and at that time will be shut down.
After much consideration,…