Presidential Address
IMS: What does it stand for? What could it stand for? Peter Bühlmann gave the Presidential Address at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto. The following text is based on his slides, which you can view here. This is a picture of IMS: … and what follows is…

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Each year, at the end of their term, the IMS President gives an address at the Annual Meeting. The 2021–22 President, Krzysztof Burdzy, gave the following address at the IMS Annual Meeting in London in June. My presidential address is risqué… I am going to talk about a narrow…

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Each year, at the end of their term, the IMS President gives an address at the Annual Meeting. Because of the pandemic, the 2020 Annual Meeting, which would have been at the World Congress in Seoul, didn’t happen, and Susan Murphy’s Presidential Address was postponed to this year. The 2020–21…

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Alison Etheridge gave this Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting in Vilnius in July 2018.   So, how was I going to write a Presidential address? The best way to start seemed to be to see what my predecessors had said, and so I took to the internet. There

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Jon A. Wellner gave his IMS Presidential Address at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore. In it, Jon reviewed the influence of data science and machine learning on the teaching of statistics at the Graduate Level in the USA, and drew comparisons with several articles by Harold Hotelling from the…

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