IMS Bulletin
Louis Cammarata received his PhD from Harvard University in 2024 in the Department of Statistics, co-advised by Professors Tracy Ke and Caroline Uhler (MIT). He was also part of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to Harvard University, Louis earned his…
The styles Xiao-Li Meng writes about here are the styles of the discipline of statistics: not just the traditional “modeling and fitting” but also “statistics as decision-making” and “statistics as consensus,” as Christopher Phillips recently outlined…
“The Theory That Would Not Die,” Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s 2011 chronicle of Bayes’…
Paul Shaman, our beloved colleague and friend, passed away peacefully on March 19, 2025, surrounded by his family. His loss is deeply felt by all who knew him—as a teacher, mentor, leader, and kind-hearted presence in the academic community. Paul preserved his unfailing fortitude and quiet strength through his final…
Puzzle editor Anirban DasGupta says, “We are extending the deadline until July 1, 2025, for this set of puzzles. Do send an answer to one or both problems.”
You’ll find a reminder of the puzzles below. Submit your solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”).
Puzzle 56.1 Suppose we…
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…