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March 31, 2026
Saralees Nadarajah (University of Manchester UK) and Samuel Manda (University of Pretoria, South Africa) have suggestions to increase participation of Black African statisticians at conferences:
The itinerary of the African International Conferences on Statistics from 2014 to 2025 reads like a cartography of hope. From the vibrant streets of…
Saralees Nadarajah (University of Manchester UK), Samuel Manda (Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa), and Queensley C. Chukwudum (Univ. of Uyo, Nigeria) write:
International research collaborations are widely heralded as essential mechanisms for addressing global challenges in health, agriculture, and development. Funding schemes from major agencies in Europe and North America…
March 20, 2026
A new issue of Annals of Applied Statistics has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aoas/aoas_20_1/aoas_20_1.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…
Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has received the 2026 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Wei receives the award “for contributions to statistical theory and methodology in learning from high-dimensional and structured data; for…
March 6, 2026
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2026 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Kaizheng Wang.
Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations…
