Obituary
Joseph George Caldwell died on April 16, 2024. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on March 23, 1942, and moved with his family to the United States in January, 1953. His family lived in Lakeland, Florida, and Newark, Delaware, before settling in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in June of 1956.…
John H. Wolfe, an IMS Life Member, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2024, in San Diego, California, after a battle with metastatic cancer. He was 90 years of age. He is best known in statistics as the inventor of model-based clustering in the 1960s, a field that has seen…
William (Bill) Strawderman, a brilliant mathematical statistician and a wonderful colleague and leader, passed away on October 1, 2024.
Born on April 25, 1941, Bill received a BS in Engineering Mathematics from University of Rhode Island in 1963, an MS in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1965, and an MS…
The Statistics community lost a luminary with the sad demise of Professor Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee on June 18, 2024, at the age of 89. He leaves behind his son and daughter and two grandchildren, as well as numerous students, friends and admirers. A doyen among Indian statisticians, Professor Chatterjee was…
Professor Richard Allen Olshen passed away on November 8, 2023.
Professor Olshen will be forever remembered for his pioneering research in the field of statistics and his unyielding passion for academia, especially to Stanford University. He played a significant role in advancing statistical learning, notably through his influential work on…