Opinion
Radu V Craiu, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, considers whether statisticians need a new image:
We keep hearing stories about insomniac surgeons, smug lawyers who all happen to be very well-dressed, overall-clad artists who are sleeping on their friends’ sofas until they make it big. While partially rejecting these…
IMS Bulletin Editor Dimitris Politis writes:
Refereeing is part of the job description for most of us. Good papers get even better after receiving expert feedback, and mediocre papers are returned to the drawing board. Referees donate their time as part of the review process, and in return have the…
Jim Pitman writes about the increasing importance of author identity in the online universe, to allow authors due credit for their work, to assist researchers in navigating the vast universe of bibliographic data, and to facilitate collaborations between authors with similar or complementary interests. But what can YOU do?
Xuming He writes:
I went to college because I thought that I would know all about mathematics after four years in college. By the time I completed my PhD, I felt that I had hardly scratched the surface of my specialization, statistics. As the wise would say, the more you…