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Towards an open community in statistics, probability and econometrics: Introduction to interviews with YoungStatS project presenters. Andrej Srakar, PhD, is coordinator and Co-Editor of the YoungStatS project. He works as a Scientific Associate at the Institute for Economic Research in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is an Assistant Professor at the School…

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Queensley C. Chukwudum (University of Uyo, Nigeria) and Saralees Nadarajah (University of Manchester, UK, and Howard University, Washington DC, USA) would like your assistance, to support African research that benefits Africa. They write:   It is a sad fact that Africa has been, and continues to be, affected by exploitation…

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Adel Daoud is the host and organizer of a new podcast series, The Journeys of Scholars. He writes: Many of us academics are fascinated by the pursuit of academic excellence and mastery, yet it can remain a puzzle how to achieve this pursuit optimally. There exist many scholarly and popular…

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The laureates of the first Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics received their awards in a ceremony at the University of Leuven, Belgium, on October 12th: you can see the photos, videos and slides at https://rousseeuwprize.org/ceremony. Our columnist David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the international selection committee, and…

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Assemble your team! We are pleased to announce that Eurostat is organising the European Statistics Awards Programme, with competitions in the fields of nowcasting and web intelligence. By “nowcasting” we mean the forecasting of statistical indicators with extremely tight timeliness – typically before the reference period is over. Nowcasting methods…

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