Bhramar Mukherjee is JSM Program Chair for the 2013 meeting in Montreal. She writes:   The 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held in Montreal, Canada. Standing in the province of Québec, Montreal offers a distinct English/French flavor and is very much a mixture of the old and the new.…

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For a little light relief, Peter Kootsookos wrote this version in honor of C. R. Rao. It’s adapted from the Simon and Garfunkel song “Homeward Bound”

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With this column, Terry Speed would love to spark a revival of Yule’s new system of notation. Well, it was "new" 105 years ago…

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Terry Speed writes in honor of William Sealy Gossett: statistician, Guinness brewer, and thoroughly decent chap. Raise a glass to “Student”

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The PDF version of the June/July 2012 IMS Bulletin is online now: click this link to download the complete PDF.…

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