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IMS Fellow Emanuel Parzen, a respected figure in signal detection theory and time series analysis who, with Murray Rosenblatt, introduced the use of kernel density estimation (the so-called “Parzen window”), died February 6, 2016, in Boca Raton, Florida. He was 86.
Manny Parzen, who was born on April 21, 1929,…
The 2016 ENAR Spring Meeting will be held in Austin, Texas, from March 6–9. The meeting brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, connected through a common interest in Biometry.
Featuring the 2016 ENAR Presidential Invited Speaker, Xihong Lin (Harvard University), whose lecture will be on Biostatistics,…
Alexander Volfovsky writes:
For more than twenty years (with a gap year here and there) the IMS has been hosting the Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability immediately before the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). At each of these conferences a group of around 50 new researchers — postdocs…
We are pleased to introduce the candidates who are standing for election to the IMS Council in 2016. This year there is one candidate for President-Elect, and there are 10 candidates for five places on Council.
The President-Elect candidate is Alison Etheridge. The 10 Council candidates are, in alphabetical order:…
Featuring news about Donald P. Gaver III, Michael Paul Cohen, Patricia A. Jacobs, Alan F. Karr, Stephen Portnoy, James Matthew Robins, Chih-Ling Tsai, Alyson G. Wilson; Judith Rousseau; Probal Chaudhuri, Radu Craiu, Byron J. Gajewski, Jianhua Huang, Nicholas Jewell, Jiming Jiang, Abba Meyer Krieger, Qi Long, Michael T. Longnecker, Wenbin Lu, Guy Philip Nason, Sonja Petrović, Natesh Pillai, Bruce David Spencer, David Spiegelhalter, Ajit Tamhane, David Alan Stephens and Glenn Stone.