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Trevor Hastie, John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences, professor of statistics, and professor of biomedical data science in the school of humanities and sciences at Stanford University, was recently named the 2022 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. He presented his lecture on “Cross-Validation in Model Selection and Assessment,” on…
The laureates of the first Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics received their awards in a ceremony at the University of Leuven, Belgium, on October 12th: you can see the photos, videos and slides at https://rousseeuwprize.org/ceremony. Our columnist David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the international selection committee, and…
Organizers Annie Qu and Regina Liu write:
We are delighted to report that the 2022 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science; December 13–16, 2022, in Florence, Italy) has received a tremendous response, including many outstanding invited speakers coming from different countries and continents, covering a wide…
Several IMS members are among those honored as elected members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in the third round of 2022 ISI membership elections. The names and nationalities of the newly elected members are given below:
Sanjay Chaudhuri (India). Sanjay Chaudhuri is an Associate Professor in the Department of…
The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) prize committee unanimously agreed to award the 2022 Hukum Chandra Memorial Prize to Prof. Mahmoud Torabi (University of Manitoba) for the paper “Sumca: Simple, Unified, Monte-Carlo Assisted Approach to Second-order Unbiased MSPE Estimation”. Prof. Torabi will receive the prize and provide a special…