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August 31, 2024
On September 10, 2024, Professor Bradley Efron from Stanford University will be delivering a talk on the topic “A diagnostic function for bootstrap confidence intervals” in honor of the late Dr. C.R. Rao’s birthday.
This online event is the first in a series organized to celebrate the birthday of the…
Dong-Yun Kim and Jessica Kohlschmidt write:
The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (CWS) offers awards and scholarships to selected members each year: https://cwstat.org/awards/. Since 2016, CWS has been helping early-career professionals and students travel to participate in the annual JSM meetings. This year, we have a…
The C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize for Outstanding Research in Statistics, awarded by the Penn State Department of Statistics, was established to recognize outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical research, and pioneering contributions by a recognized leader in the …
The Bernoulli Society’s Ethel Newbold Prize, established in 2014, honors the significant contributions of women to the field of statistics. The biennial award, generously supported by Wiley, recognizes excellence in statistics without regard to the gender of the recipient. The 2025 Ethel Newbold Prize will be awarded to an outstanding …
IMS and the Future of Statistics and Probability
Michael R. Kosorok gave the IMS Presidential Address on August 12, 2024, at the 11th Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Bochum. He began by outlining his personal connections with IMS, described some of the functions and activities of the institute, and then moved …