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October 1, 2022
The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) prize committee unanimously agreed to award the 2022 Hukum Chandra Memorial Prize to Prof. Mahmoud Torabi (University of Manitoba) for the paper “Sumca: Simple, Unified, Monte-Carlo Assisted Approach to Second-order Unbiased MSPE Estimation”. Prof. Torabi will receive the prize and provide a special…

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IMS Fellow Klaus Krickeberg shares some of his memories of and reflections on Sir David Cox (1924–2022), as a complement to the obituary that appeared in the April/May 2022 IMS Bulletin. The IMS Bulletin published in Volume 51, Issue 3, an extensive and thorough account of the scientific work…

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Ruobin Gong, Rutgers University, responds to Chris Burdzy’s Presidential Address, delivered at the 2022 IMS meeting in London. In his Presidential Address, Professor Chris Burdzy urged the IMS community to “stop using the term ‘subjective’ in reference to any part of statistics.” He further professed emotionally that “I love…

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Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen passed away on June 26, 2022, in Aarhus after a short period of illness. He was born in Copenhagen on March 18, 1935. He made vast contributions in several fields of knowledge, including statistics, probability, econometrics, and theoretical physics. The velocity at which the sad news of…

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Bert Fristedt died in his sleep on July 18, 2020, at the age of 83.  Bert was born on April 8, 1937 in Minneapolis. He spent his entire life in Minnesota, with the exception of his time in graduate school and one year each at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and…

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