IMS Bulletin
Eurostat is pleased to announce the third round of the European Statistics Awards for Nowcasting (https://statistics-awards.eu/), with a focus on international trade in goods. The competitions began in September 2024 with registration open until 30 October 2024.
The focus of the competitions is in forecasting three key…
The Statistics community lost a luminary with the sad demise of Professor Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee on June 18, 2024, at the age of 89. He leaves behind his son and daughter and two grandchildren, as well as numerous students, friends and admirers. A doyen among Indian statisticians, Professor Chatterjee was…
WNAR Correspondent Professor Jessica Minnier writes:
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS was a joint conference with the Graybill Conference hosted by Colorado State University in Fort Collins from June 9–12.
Robert Santos, Director of the US Census Bureau, gave the WNAR Plenary and Presidential Address entitled “Serving Through…
Million-dollar Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awarded to Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli and Ruth Heller
An international and independent jury, appointed by the King Baudouin Foundation, has selected the pioneering work on the False Discovery Rate (FDR) as the recipient of the prestigious biennial Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics 2024. This million-dollar…
SSC Gold Medal awarded to Cindy Greenwood
The 2024 Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is awarded to Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood, professor emerita in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. The citation for the Gold Medal Award, which is given to one…