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Royal Statistical Society (RSS) West Medal to Danny Pfeffermann
Danny Pfeffermann has had a long career in social statistics, with particular methodological interests in time series, multilevel modelling, survey non-response and small area estimation. He has for many years held down multiple roles; he has been President of the Israeli…
The 2017 Itô Prize is won by Adrián González Casanova, Noemi Kurt, Anton Wakolbinger and Linglong Yuan, for their paper entitled “An individual-based model for the Lenski experiment, and the deceleration of the relative fitness” published in Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. The Itô Prize honors the memory and celebrates…
We congratulate the following new International Statistical Institute (ISI) Elected Members, who were elected recently in ISI Membership Elections. Among those elected in the first round of 2017 were: Sévérien Nkurunziza, University of Windsor, Canada, and Xiaojing Wang, University of Connecticut, USA. The final round of 2016 included: Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani,…
Sir David Cox and Bradley Efron have been awarded the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category. The €400,000 award is shared for their development of “pioneering and hugely influential” statistical methods that have proved indispensable for obtaining reliable results in a vast spectrum of…
Emily Fox, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, University of Washington, has been selected to receive a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor bestowed by the US government upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.…