IMS Bulletin
Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College London) has been thinking about the ethical, social and policy challenges associated with the rise and rise of “big data”:
Data ethics seem to be the flavour of the month. In the UK alone, the establishment of the National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory…
There is still time to nominate your outstanding colleagues and collaborators IMS Fellowship or for the Carver medal.
A candidate for the IMS Fellowship [see Philip Protter’s article here]shall have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability, by publication of independent work of merit. This qualification may be…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is January 25, 2019.
Anirban DasGupta says:
The previous problem on inference based on the distribution of a nonsufficient statistic required the use of …
Check the rates and add discounted joint memberships with other societies—now including the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics and the New England Statistical Society, as well as INFORMS/Applied Probability Society, International Chinese Statistical Association, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and ISI/Bernoulli Society—at:
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The International Prize in Statistics is awarded to Bradley Efron, Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, in recognition of the “bootstrap,” a method he developed in 1977 for assessing the uncertainty of scientific results that has had extraordinary and enormous impact across many scientific fields.
With…