IMS Bulletin
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
My sabbatical orientation at Lugano (see the last XL-Files) boosted my over-confidence into double digits. Anyone who asked about my sabbatical plan would get an ambitious answer: that I would complete 14 articles during my sabbatical year. The year is now (at the time of writing)…
Bhramar Mukherjee from University of Michigan writes: Congratulations to Tyler J. VanderWeele of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award. This award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies of the Committee of Presidents …
Following “guest puzzler” Stanislav Volkov’s rotating wheel probability puzzle (solution below), Anirban DasGupta sets a statistics puzzle:
This is one of those quick-and-dirty methods, popularized by John Tukey, one that makes some intuitive sense, and can be very quickly implemented. This issue’s problem is about testing the equality of two…
The IMS Elections this year are for the IMS President and five places on Council. The nominees are:
For IMS President:
Susan Murphy
For IMS Council:
Vivek S. Borkar
Vanja Dukic
Christina Goldschmidt
Ruth Heller
Susan Holmes
Xihong Lin
Richard Lockhart
Gabor Lugosi
Nicolai Meinshausen
Kerrie Mengersen
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The US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of 70 regular members and 10 international members. Among them is Nicholas Patrick Jewell, University of California, Berkeley.
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals…