From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Anirban DasGupta says this problem seems impossible at first sight, but thinks you will probably arrive at a solution quickly and it might surprise some of you that this is possible. This is the kind of thing statistics students used to learn routinely forty or fifty years ago. The problem…
Nicholas Horton announces a call for papers on “Teaching reproducibility and responsible workflow” for the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
Modern statistics and data science utilizes an iterative data analysis process to solve problems and extract meaning from data in a reproducible manner.
Models such as the PPDAC…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College London, writes:
“Algorithm” seems to be the word of the moment. To those untrained in quantitative disciplines it can seem to be imbued with magical properties. Algorithms are what underlie speech recognition systems, self-driving cars, and optimal sat-nav route-finding systems. They are what…
September 24, 2021
Tallahassee, FL, USA and via Zoom
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The Department of Statistics at Florida State University is pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Murphy from Harvard will be joining us on September 24, 2021 for this year’s Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship. The title of her upcoming talk…
Andrej Srakar is the coordinator and co-editor of the YoungStatS project of Young Statisticians Europe. He reports on their efforts at revitalizing statistics in the post-COVID period:
Young Statisticians Europe (YSE) is an initiative of a group of young professionals in statistics, econometrics and data analysis, launched during a workshop…