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Over 50 organizations are marking World Statistics Day (20th of October) with a statement urging that global development must no longer be hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live.
See the full statement on the RSS web site …
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) conferred their 2015 awards at JSM in Seattle in August. John D. Storey, Princeton University’s William R. Harman ’63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics and professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, received the 2015 COPSS Presidents’ Award, which recognizes…
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The American Statistical Association (ASA) named 62 of its members as Fellows this year. Among them are 18 IMS members.
The IMS members who are new ASA Fellows are: John Aston, University of Cambridge, UK; Peter M. Bentler, University of California, Los Angeles; Vanja Dukic, University of Colorado at Boulder;…
The 2015 Schramm Lecture at the 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications meeting in Oxford, UK, in July, was presented by Michel Ledoux, University of Toulouse. Michel’s lecture was on “Stein’s method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities.”
This year’s Stochastic Processes and their Applications conference welcomed over 400…