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September 30, 2021
Daniela Witten — professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics, mother, Peloton fan — introduces a new column, Written by Witten.
It’s been a long year and a half! Over the course of this pandemic, I have been…
Huixia Judy Wang, the COPSS Treasurer/Secretary, presents the 2021 winners:
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. For 2021, COPSS awards were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) on August 11 by the COPSS…
Jeffrey T. Leek is a professor of Biostatistics and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab. He has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Utah State University and an MS and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of…
Please visit https://community.amstat.org/copss/home for details of eligibility and nomination requirements for all these awards. Please send nominations (preferably by e-mail in PDF format) to the committee chairs by December 15, 2021.
Presidents’ Award
The Presidents’ Award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating…
Anirban DasGupta describes this problem as a blend of calculus and probability:
All of you know that for any given positive number α, α1/n → 1 as n → ∞. How large an n does it take to get very close to 1 if we choose α randomly? Here is…