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IMS Fellow David B. Allison has been appointed dean of the Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Allison, former associate dean for research and science in the school of health professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is an elected fellow of the National Academy…
Longtime IMS member Michael P. Cohen has been elected representative-at-large for business, industry and government, to the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Congress with three-year term beginning February 1, 2018. Mike is a Principal Statistician at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). He has over 35 years’ experience in complex…
As we previously reported, IMS Fellow Sir David Cox was named the inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics. The prize was presented to Cox via video link at the opening ceremony of the World Statistics Congress in Marrakech, Morocco, in July. Sir David Spiegelhalter received the plaque…
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. For 2017, four awards were presented on August 2 during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore.
Tyler J. VanderWeele of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
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