Opinion
On June 11–12, 2015, the IMS-Microsoft Research workshop Foundations of Data Science brought together parallel communities of statisticians and machine learning researchers to discuss various problems that have both statistical and computational aspects. The organizers Jennifer Chayes from Microsoft Research, former IMS president Bin Yu from UC Berkeley Statistics Department,…
Guest columnist Dominique Picard considers the statistical legacy of wavelets.
Once upon a time (around the nineties), wavelet analysis emerged as a major tool in various disciplines, including several branches of pure and applied mathematics and statistics. The primary intent at this time was to produce and exploit the properties…
Erwin Bolthausen became IMS President in July (he is pictured below, center, with Past-President Bin Yu, left, and President-Elect Richard Davis, right). Erwin shares his thoughts on the future of the institute:
The IMS is extremely successful as a scientific society, mainly as a scientific publisher, and also with its…
Victoria Stodden writes:
The reproducibility of published findings is becoming a hot topic. From reports in the popular press to congressional activity, and from scholarly society engagement to academic publications and editorials, there has been an upsurge in attention to this issue. I will offer some explanations of the concept…