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December 16, 2020
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, University of Toronto, writes a guest column:
In the recent U.S. presidential election, public opinion polls indicated that Joe Biden would defeat Donald Trump handily. His actual victory was much tighter than expected — a popular vote margin about half of the predicted 8–10%, and narrow victories…
December 15, 2020
Douglas Simpson was appointed as the Associate Director of the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) on August 1, 2020. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1985, serving as chair of the department from 2000–19. In…
David Madigan writes:
The Association of Computing Machinery and the IMS have formed a joint venture to bring together researchers and practitioners to address foundational data science challenges in prediction, inference, fairness, ethics and the future of data science. Following the successful Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science…
Nike Sun, associate professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded the 2020 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, awarded every other year by the Bernoulli Society. The prize is awarded to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability, and who is at the beginning…
Inaugural COPSS–NISS Webinar on the Statistics of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials “standing-room only”
Glenn Johnson from NISS reports: How many people are interested in understanding and interpreting findings of the early results of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trials? Lots! How many people can you get into a Zoom webinar? More than you…