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Ming Li, who is the chair of the committee for the ASA’s Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences (SPES) Award, writes: We received seven nominations for the SPES Award this year. The SPES Award Committee reviewed the nomination letters and support materials and chose the winner for this year to be…

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Xuming He is chair of the IMS Committee to Select Editors. He introduces the incoming editors of three of the IMS journals: We are pleased to introduce the editors-elect for several IMS flagship journals. Their three-year terms start January 1, 2022. The Annals of Applied Probability aims to publish research…

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Probability and Mathematical Statistics is an IMS-affiliated journal, based at the University of Wroclaw and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, in Poland. Founded in 1980, it is now under new editorship. The new Editors are Krzysztof Bogdan, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, and Krzysztof Debicki, University…

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During her 2019 term as ASA President, Karen Kafadar (who is now Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Applied Statistics) convened a Task Force to address issues surrounding the use of p-values and statistical significance, as well as their connection to replicability. The report from the task force and…

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Nicholas Horton announces a call for papers on “Teaching reproducibility and responsible workflow” for the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. Modern statistics and data science utilizes an iterative data analysis process to solve problems and extract meaning from data in a reproducible manner. Models such as the PPDAC…

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