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The American Statistical Association (ASA) named 62 of its members as Fellows this year. Among them are 18 IMS members.
The IMS members who are new ASA Fellows are: John Aston, University of Cambridge, UK; Peter M. Bentler, University of California, Los Angeles; Vanja Dukic, University of Colorado at Boulder;…
Two IMS members have been signed to major ice hockey teams in the US — not as players, but as part of the growing number of statistical analysts in professional sports. Sam Ventura, a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), has been signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins as…
Featuring news about Aad van der Vaart, Michael Waterman, Steven Fienberg, Jiming Jiang, Judith Goldberg, John Eltinge, Xuming He and Danyu Lin.
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The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2015 Rao Prize Conference on May 14, 2015 to honor three prize recipients: the 2015 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize Recipient Sir David R. Cox, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College at University of Oxford; the 2015…