Opinion
Linjun Zhang continues with the second in our invited series of articles on LLMs and AI, and their implications for the statistics profession. Should statisticians be worried about being replaced or left behind? Or should we, in fact, seize this opportunity and lead our neighboring disciplines? Linjun argues that the…
Linjun Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics, at Rutgers University. He obtained his PhD in Statistics at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania, in 2019, and received the J. Parker Bursk Memorial Prize and the Donald S. Murray Prize for excellence in research and teaching,…
Dietrich Stoyan and Sung Nok Chiu write:
The question of the origin of COVID-19 is of great importance to humankind, as it seeks to understand how this pandemic emerged and how to prevent future pandemics caused by similar viruses. Currently, there are two competing theories, the natural origin (zoonosis) and…
IMS Fellow Jordan Stoyanov (Newcastle University, UK, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Shandong University, China) is seeking your involvement in finding agreement on a set of rules for distinct and recognizable notations and abbreviations for writings in Probability and Statistics.
Download his article here.…
Will Eagan was one of the winners of the 2020 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award (he graduated from Purdue with his PhD in December 2020, and is now a Principal Biostatistician at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals). He wrote to share two pieces of advice he was given as a grad student:…