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During ISBA 2021, the 2021 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, June 28–July 2, the first competition for the Best Student Presentation Award of the Industrial Statistics Section of ISBA took place. The award winner was Anna Yanchenko from Duke University, with the presentation “Hierarchical Dynamic Modeling…
Theophilos (Theo) Cacoullos, who passed away in 2020, was an IMS Fellow and founder of the Greek Statistical Institute. His research work covered topics in multivariate analysis, characterizations of distributions, variance bounds for univariate and multivariate distributions and many others. His obituary is here.
Theo Cacoullos’s family members have…
The David G. Kendall award for young researchers is awarded jointly by the Bernoulli Society and Royal Statistical Society to recognize excellent research in Mathematical Statistics and in Probability Theory. The Award is in honor of David G. Kendall, who was the first president of the Bernoulli Society, and was…
Dr. Lan Wang has been selected as an ISI Elected Member. Dr. Lan Wang is a tenured Professor in Department of Management Science at the Miami Herbert Business School of the University of Miami. Before joining University of Miami, she was a Professor of Statistics at the University of Minnesota.…
American Statistical Association Fellows
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has bestowed its prestigious distinction of Fellow on 48 of its members, for their professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistical science. Among the 2021 ASA Fellows are these 12 IMS members/Fellows: Jeffrey D. Blume, Vanderbilt University School…