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Lathisms is an organization that supports and brings visibility to Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians. As part of this, Lathisms offers scholarships to mathematics students, meant to help with costs that pose a barrier to the success and advancement of the awardee in their pursuit of a career in the…
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) is a national organization that works on issues related to information and quantitative analysis. The goal of the NISS New Researchers Network is to create connections among undergraduate and graduate students from different academic institutions and early-career professionals within the NISS Affiliates Program.…
The UK’s Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) provides an authoritative, persuasive, and influential voice for the whole of the mathematical sciences. It brings together academia, education, business, industry, and government from across all four nations, providing crucial connectivity for harnessing the power of the discipline. Through expert-led policy development…
Innovative usages of natural experiments and causal inference in statistics and data science
Natural experiments are an ingenious way to estimate causal effects in situations where randomised experiments are not possible. They have emerged as a standard topic in statistics, data science and econometrics, with The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in…
Andrej Srakar, Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia, is coordinator of the YoungStatS project, part of the Young Statisticians Europe initiative. He writes:
The Young Statisticians Europe (YSE) initiative was founded in Paris in 2018, at a three-day international workshop that was organized by three young French scholars (https://www.sfds.asso.fr/en/events/629-european_workshop/…