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Planning a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research
Jim Pitman and Clifford Lynch were members of the Committee on Planning a Global Library of the Mathematical Sciences, which wrote the report discussed here. Other members were Ingrid Daubechies, Kathleen Carley, Timothy Cole, Judith Klavans, Yann LeCun, Michael Lesk, Peter…
Jean Opsomer writes:
In January 2014, Statistics Without Borders (SWB) emailed its members about a request from the Rwanda Biomedical Center. There was a need for training in survey data analysis, and the R programming language. The classes would be in English, and the students would have some statistics background.…
Announcing Statistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook published by SSC – in Celebration of the International Year of Statistics
Jerry Lawless writes:
In early 2013 the Statistical Society of Canada commissioned a volume of expository articles in celebration of the 2013 International Year of Statistics. The resulting book Statistics in …
Xiaoming Huo, Program Director for Statistics, Computational and Data-enabled Science & Engineering at NSF, writes:
CDS&E-MSS (Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) is a relatively new funding opportunity that is managed by the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its…
COPSS 50th Anniversary Volume: Past, Present and Future of Statistical Science
Co-editors: Xihong Lin, Christian Genest, David Banks, Geert Molenberghs, David Scott, and Jane-Ling Wang
This book entitled Past, Present and Future of Statistical Science was commissioned in 2013 by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to celebrate…