From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
IMS Council recently approved the appointment of John Aston as statistics editor for the successful IMS–Cambridge University Press book series, IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks (https://imstat.org/journals-and-publications/ims-monographs/) for a three-year term starting January 1, 2021. He takes over from Xuming He, and joins Nancy Reid (coordinating editor, 2018–2021), Ramon…
UC Berkeley statistics Professor Bin Yu describes Data Science as a “field of evidence-seeking that combines data with information from a research domain information to generate new knowledge.” Concerned with making this process more consistent and trustworthy, Bin has laid out her framework for integrating predictability, computability and…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu writes: At the end of a year that felt like a decennium, it might be wise to remind ourselves that we are constantly torn between, on the one hand, the excitement of answering questions about the future (“What will it look like, and where do I…
A couple more IMS members wrote to share what they have been working on, around COVID-19. If you’d like a mention in the next issue, please contact ims@imstat.org (send a paragraph about your work, and a link to the paper, or location where interested readers can find out more). Our …
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies held its “COPSS and Friends” meeting in August, with representatives from COPSS itself (Bhramar Mukherjee and Huixia Judy Wang), and from its founding societies: the American Statistical Association, ASA (Wendy Martinez, Ron Wasserstein), Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society, ENAR (Michael Daniels,…