From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Submit a nomination: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/nominations/  The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for: the 2023 & 2024 Wald Lectures the 2023 Blackwell Lecture the 2023 Wahba Lecture the 2024 Medallion Lectures (eight awards) Send your nomination by October 1, 2021. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/

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Probability and Mathematical Statistics is an IMS-affiliated journal, based at the University of Wroclaw and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, in Poland. Founded in 1980, it is now under new editorship. The new Editors are Krzysztof Bogdan, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, and Krzysztof Debicki, University…

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Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some concerns about the impact of the pandemic on young researchers:  By the time we start to grasp what it means to be young, the youth itself is gone. Whether it drowns in too much truth or too many compromises matters less than the realization…

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Anirban DasGupta has So. Many. Questions. He invites your answers: send your thoughts and comments (and maybe more questions!) to bulletin@imstat.org or leave a comment below. Like a slightly impetuous, though scrupulous, young man of the teenage revolutionary kind, I am listing today an abundance of questions that more or…

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During her 2019 term as ASA President, Karen Kafadar (who is now Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Applied Statistics) convened a Task Force to address issues surrounding the use of p-values and statistical significance, as well as their connection to replicability. The report from the task force and…

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