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The International Association of Survey Statisticians has congratulated Professor Partha Lahiri on his 2020 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Small Area Estimation and Professor Wayne A. Fuller on his 2021 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Small Area Estimation. Lahiri and Fuller were awarded their prizes at the ISI satellite conference…
IMS Council has approved the appointment of Grace Yi and Gang Li as co-editors of the Electronic Journal of Statistics, as recommended by the joint IMS/Bernoulli Society Committee to Select Editors. Their terms will be January 1, 2022–December 31, 2024. They take over from Domenico Marinucci, who has served as…
As we announced in the April/May 2021 issue, the 2021 International Prize in Statistics was awarded to US biostatistician Nan Laird, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in recognition of her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis…
Staying with the ISI Virtual World Congress [see International Prize announcement here], you can also view the video of Kerrie Mengersen’s ISI President’s Invited Keynote Lecture, The Origami of Data Science. Kerrie Mengersen is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the ISI…
The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Savage Award, named in honor of Leonard J. “Jimmie” Savage, is bestowed each year on two outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics and statistics, one each in Theory & Methods and Applied Methodology. The winner of the Theory & Methods section for 2020…