From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
SAM 2024: the Statistical Analyses of Multi-Outcome Data
The Fifth International Workshop on the Statistical Analyses of Multi-Outcome Data (SAM 2024) was successfully held on July 9–10, 2024, in the picturesque city of Salzburg, Austria. This year’s workshop, co-sponsored by the University of Salzburg, attracted 130 registered participants, setting new…
ISNPS 2024: the 6th International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics
Following the successful ISNPS conferences in Chalkidiki, Cádiz, Avignon, Salerno, and Paphos, the 6th International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics took place in Braga, Portugal, from June 25–29. The meeting was organized by the Centro de Matemática of the Universidade do Minho,…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto) took the opportunity to reflect during his “summer intermezzo”:
Constrained by circumstances, this was a summer of relative stagnation, at least in terms of spatial displacement. Toronto being the lovely city that it is, I still managed to…
Nominations for the inaugural presentation of the 2025 David Cox Medal for Statistics, honoring a mid-career statistician, are now open and will be closing on 31 October 2024.
The David Cox Medal is a new international statistical award, commemorating the life and work of Sir David Cox (1924–2022). The medal…
IMS Fellow Peter Rousseeuw has been named the recipient of the 2024 Gottfried E. Distinguished Scholar Award of the ASA. The citation reads: “Dr. Peter Rousseeuw has made significant contributions to robust estimation, innovative model-free cluster analysis, and the development of statistical depth functions. His work, renowned for advancing methodology,…