Robert V. “Bob” Hogg, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Actuarial Science, passed away on December 23, 2014, in Highlands Ranch, CO, aged 90. Professor Hogg was an internationally renowned statistics textbook author, pioneering researcher, and an award-winning teacher. Blessed with a fun-loving, charismatic personality and a sharp mind, Bob has…

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Professor Pejaver V. Rao (known as P.V.) died on January 2, 2015 at his retirement home in North Carolina after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer. He was hospitalized in mid December, but returned home to spend the holidays with his family, who were with him at his death.…

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Jon Wellner presents this year’s Le Cam Lecture, given every third year in memory of Lucien Le Cam, at JSM in Seattle. Jon A. Wellner, born in 1945 in Oregon, graduated in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Idaho in 1968, and received his PhD from the University of…

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Bimal K. Roy, Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, writes: Sankhya Series A plans to publish a special issue on Application of Concentration Inequalities and Empirical Processes to Modern Statistics as Part II of Volume 78, scheduled to come out in August 2016. The special issue will contain five invited…

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Contributing Editor David Hand explains that while statistics as a field is not impossible, it is often misunderstood: The importance of public understanding of science, and of outreach activities more generally, is now widely accepted. Much research funding comes from public sources, so there’s an obligation to ensure that the…

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