IMS Bulletin
Joseph George Caldwell died on April 16, 2024. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on March 23, 1942, and moved with his family to the United States in January, 1953. His family lived in Lakeland, Florida, and Newark, Delaware, before settling in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in June of 1956.…
John H. Wolfe, an IMS Life Member, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2024, in San Diego, California, after a battle with metastatic cancer. He was 90 years of age. He is best known in statistics as the inventor of model-based clustering in the 1960s, a field that has seen…
In the January/February 2025 issue [link is to PDF], Xiao-Li Meng explained how his acquisition of a wine club’s inventory led to a statistical taste-test by the Happy Team. Continuing the three-part series, he explains the particular links between this wine, some chocolate and quite a lot of …
Andrej Srakar chaired the Local Organizing Committee for the 23rd European Young Statisticians Meeting, which was held online in September 2023. He writes:
The 23rd European Young Statisticians Meeting was held during September 11-15, 2023 virtually in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The European Young Statisticians Meetings (EYSM) is a series of conferences…
Professor Sir John Aston is Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life at the University of Cambridge. Professor Aston is an applied statistician with particular interest in statistical neuroimaging, official statistics and statistical linguistics. He has methodological interests in functional and object data analysis, time series and image analysis, and…