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Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors statisticians
Maya Sternberg, COPSS secretary/treasurer writes: The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presented the 2023 awards at JSM in Toronto on August 9. The awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: IMS, the American Statistical Association, the Eastern and…
Ryan Tibshirani wins the prestigious 2023 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Ryan Tibshirani is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie broadly in statistics, machine learning (ML), and optimization and more specifically in high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric estimation, distribution-free inference, convex optimization, and…
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You can read the latest YoungStatS blog post, on Bayesian nonparametrics, here.
Its author, IMS member Dr. Beatrice Franzolini (Bocconi University, Italy) is currently chair-elect of the junior ISBA (j-ISBA, International Society for Bayesian Analysis) section.
Look out for another YoungStatS article in an…
Jessica Kohlschmidt is the Executive Director of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. She writes with an update on recent and forthcoming CWS activities:
The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science, CWS (https://cwstat.org/) is pleased to share the following information.
We have selected our third annual…
Eurostat has announced the second round of European Statistics Awards for Nowcasting, which started in June 2023. The competition aims to stimulate innovation in the area of Nowcasting for European statistics.
In the Energy Statistics Nowcasting Challenge, teams will focus on using advanced modelling techniques and (nearly) real-time auxiliary data,…