From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Did you know that Project Euclid sells selected volumes of IMS books? The following books (all softcover/paperback) are available to order from the Project Euclid bookstore, at http://services.projecteuclid.org/
IMS Lecture Notes–Monograph Series
Empirical Processes, Peter Gänssler: This monogragh presents a thorough and detailed description of the topics in the area…
A recent spate of funerals has made Terry Speed think about how we can pay tribute to our esteemed colleagues before it’s too late…
It is with great sadness that we report the passing away of Peter Gavin Hall on January 9, 2016, in Melbourne, Australia. He was 64.
During the past four decades Peter was a monumental figure in the statistics community, both internationally and within his home country of Australia.
Peter was…
IMS Fellow Emanuel Parzen, a respected figure in signal detection theory and time series analysis who, with Murray Rosenblatt, introduced the use of kernel density estimation (the so-called “Parzen window”), died February 6, 2016, in Boca Raton, Florida. He was 86.
Manny Parzen, who was born on April 21, 1929,…
The 2016 ENAR Spring Meeting will be held in Austin, Texas, from March 6–9. The meeting brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, connected through a common interest in Biometry.
Featuring the 2016 ENAR Presidential Invited Speaker, Xihong Lin (Harvard University), whose lecture will be on Biostatistics,…