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Dylan Small writes: Observational Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers on all aspects of observational studies. The journal’s web site is https://obs.pennpress.org/home/. The journal is diamond open access—no charges for readers and no charges for authors. William Cochran defined an observational study as an empiric investigation in…

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The Electronic Journal of Statistics, Volume 10, number 2, contains a Special Section entitled “Statistical Inference in Sparse High-Dimensional Models”. This special section has been co-edited by Florentina Bunea and Marloes Maathuis and contains invited papers that originated from the 2013–2014 SAMSI program on Low-Dimensional Structures in High-Dimensional Systems, and…

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Access to the Current Index to Statistics (CIS) <http://statindex.org> will become open to the public effective January 1, 2017. Subscription fees will no longer be charged for any user. CIS will remain open until December 31, 2019 and at that time will be shut down. After much consideration,…

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We are pleased to introduce the latest in the popular IMS Monographs series, published in a cooperative arrangement with Cambridge University Press. Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science is written by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie, both from Stanford University. Published in the UK in July and…

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Two Open Access Probability Journals Join Project Euclid We are excited to announce that both the Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic Communications in Probability are now available in Project Euclid. Co-published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, these titles join other high-quality publications in probability…

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