IMS Bulletin
2013 Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences
Call for Nominations
The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), are pleased to request nominations for the Twelfth Annual Janet…
In this issue, Terry Speed surveys the history of least squares, which has applications to life, the universe and everything…
Featuring news about: Peter Hall; J K Ghosh; Jean Opsomer; JP Morgan; NISS news; AMS Fellows; Shahjahan Khan
Peter Hall honored in Australia
On 26 January, former IMS President Peter Hall was named an Officer (AO) in the General Division of Order of Australia. His citation reads, “For distinguished service…
IMS President Hans Künsch writes:
Back in the eighties, my main reason for joining IMS was that this allowed me to purchase my own copy of the Annals of Statistics at a cheap price. Although the Annals were also available at three different libraries at my university, that was an…
Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians: Films of Dr. Stephen E. Fienberg for ASA’s Archive
Pfizer Global Research and Development at New London, Connecticut, the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut–Storrs, and the American Statistical Association (ASA) continue to sponsor the prestigious series, Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians. Dr.…