From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College, London, continues his Hand Writing column:
The phrase Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, is becoming ubiquitous. AI is said to hold the promise of revolutionising the human condition in innumerable ways, from taking over boring and dangerous tasks, through improving medical treatments and…
Anirban DasGupta poses a statistical puzzle, looking at an easily understood Bayes problem that appears paradoxical at first glance, and it is hard to find a non-mathematical purely intuitive explanation for it. All PhD students in statistics most likely have seen parts of this specific problem in a standard course.…
Alexander Volfovsky is Assistant Professor of Statistical Science, and Co-Director of The Polarization Lab, at Duke University. He is currently the President of the IMS New Researchers Group. He writes:
The last two years have been long for everyone, and one of the things missing from the annual IMS calendar…
The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) presents the Mortimer Spiegelman Award annually to honor a statistician below the age of 40 in the calendar year of the award who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics.
The award was…
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the 2022 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.
The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, which was founded in 2011 and is generously sponsored by Springer, is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for…