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Innovative usages of natural experiments and causal inference in statistics and data science
Natural experiments are an ingenious way to estimate causal effects in situations where randomised experiments are not possible. They have emerged as a standard topic in statistics, data science and econometrics, with The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in…
Andrej Srakar, Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia, is coordinator of the YoungStatS project, part of the Young Statisticians Europe initiative. He writes:
The Young Statisticians Europe (YSE) initiative was founded in Paris in 2018, at a three-day international workshop that was organized by three young French scholars (https://www.sfds.asso.fr/en/events/629-european_workshop/…
David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the selection committee for the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize, awarded as previously announced to Yoav Benjamini, Ruth Heller and Daniel Yekutieli (with posthumous acknowledgment to Yosef Hochberg). David gave the following speech at the award presentation.
Introduction
I was honoured to be…
In the previous issue, the article about the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society referred to DAGStat, a consortium of statistical societies in Germany. Katja Ickstadt, professor at TU Dortmund University and DAGStat chairperson, and Sarah Friedrich-Welz, professor at University of Augsburg and secretary of DAGStat, tell…
Claudia Kirch, professor of Mathematical Stochastics at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, is the 2023–25 chair of the steering committee for Fachgruppe Stochastik, the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society. After Claudia spoke at the opening ceremony of the World Congress [see the meeting report here], we…