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ENBIS, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, established three awards to honour individuals who have helped to broaden the use of statistics in business and industry. Among these is the Box Medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to business and industrial statistics. It is named after George Box,…
Our columnist Terry Speed is interviewed in the September 2016 issue of Amstat News, in the section on influential mentors. He talks with Jean Yang about interdisciplinary research, his career and the role of mentors. You can read the full interview at http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/09/01/terryspeedinterview/…
The Bernoulli Society’s Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the Ethel Newbold Prize. The Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every two years, next time in spring 2017. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for…
Featuring news about William F. Eddy, C.F. Jeff Wu, Kaye Basford and Thomas Louis
As we reported in the June/July issue, Susan Murphy was among five IMS Fellows elected this year to the National Academy of Sciences. We featured a profile of Larry Wasserman in the last issue, and we’ll bring you profiles of the others—Steve Evans, Yuval Peres and Nancy Reid—in future…