From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto, is the Director of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. She writes:
The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, CANSSI (Institut canadien des sciences statistiques, INCASS), www.canssi.ca, was established in 2012 by the Statistical Society of Canada. Professor Mary Thompson of the University of Waterloo served as…
Two IMS members have been signed to major ice hockey teams in the US — not as players, but as part of the growing number of statistical analysts in professional sports. Sam Ventura, a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), has been signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins as…
The deadline for the Student Puzzle printed in the last issue is October 20, 2015, so there is still time to enter! The puzzle appears at https://imstat.org/2015/08/student-puzzle-corner-11/. We await your submission!…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians.” This prediction by Professor Hal Varian in January 2009 (in The McKinsey Quarterly) has been quoted so frequently that if I were him, I’d have been worried whether I’d be remembered for…
The World Statistics Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2010 to recognize the importance of statistics in shaping our societies. The holding of national and regional statistical days was already a tradition in more than 100 countries, but the General Assembly’s adoption of this international day…
