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July 18, 2022
Victor Panaretos, President-Elect of the Bernoulli Society, announced the creation of a new named lecture in honor of Sir David Cox in the May 2022 Bernoulli News:
David Cox had a profound influence on our discipline and its applications. Not only through his contributions that will leave a lasting impact,…
Bernard Silverman outlined his long involvement with IMS in his speech after the delicious banquet hosted by LSE at the London meeting:
I’m very honoured to be invited here. It’s fantastic that the IMS meeting is in London, and I really hope that people are enjoying their time here.
My…
Will Eagan was one of the winners of the 2020 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award (he graduated from Purdue with his PhD in December 2020, and is now a Principal Biostatistician at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals). He wrote to share two pieces of advice he was given as a grad student:…
Radu V. Craiu writes another “Radu’s Ride”:
After more than twenty years of looking at the faces of puzzled students, I sometimes wonder where have these (many!) undergraduates ended up working, and whether they’re still confused about statistics. This is a more serious thought than you’d think, because we wrap…
Xiao-Li Meng got it. COVID, that is. But the silver lining is that he now makes a welcome return to writing the “XL-Files”:
What happens when a statistician becomes a COVID statistic? Well, first of all, a COVID fever reignited my XL fervor. No, the missing “XL-Files” have not been…