From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Vanessa Didelez has just moved to Germany from the University of Bristol, UK, to be Professor of Statistics and Causal Inference at the Leibniz Institute, University of Bremen. Her research focuses on graphical models and causal inference especially in time-dependent settings, and encompasses aspects of statistics, epidemiology, philosophy and computer…
Peter Diggle gave this Medallion Lecture at the ENAR meeting in March 2016.
Peter began his academic career in 1974 as Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Between 1984 and 1988 he was Senior Research Scientist, then Principal Research Scientist, then Chief Research Scientist in…
We are pleased to introduce the latest in the popular IMS Monographs series, published in a cooperative arrangement with Cambridge University Press. Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science is written by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie, both from Stanford University. Published in the UK in July and…
Two Open Access Probability Journals Join Project Euclid
We are excited to announce that both the Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability are now available in Project Euclid. Co-published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, these titles join other high-quality publications in probability…
Contributing Editor Vlada Limic has been thinking about ways in which the peer review process could be improved. She writes:
A young postdoc enters a renowned senior professor’s office one day. The master is sighing over a printout of an article, and finally says 1: “I have read this…