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June 28, 2026
Daniela Witten has had a superb, if not entirely spontaneous, sabbatical experience. She explains:
Two years ago, I visited a dear friend who had recently, and with very little planning, uprooted her life in New York City—home, job, decades of friendships—to move with her husband and three young boys to…
Our contributing editor Marianne Huebner teams up with Michael Wallace, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, exploring the question of measurement error in data collections and statistical remedies.
I recently had the opportunity to participate in collecting data on grip strength in athletes. At first, I was nervous, since…
The Bernoulli Society invites nominations for the 2027 Ethel Newbold Prize. Established in 2014, this biennial prize honours the significant contributions of women to the field of statistics. The award, generously supported by Wiley, recognises excellence in statistics without regard to the gender of the recipient.
The Ethel Newbold Prize…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has several prestigious Named and Medallion Lectures. Please visit https://imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/ for more information on these lectures.
The lectures that are currently available for nomination are: the 2028 IMS Neyman Award & Lecture; the 2028 IMS Rietz Award & Lecture; the 2028 IMS Grace Wahba Award…
Anirban DasGupta, Purdue University, investigates a link between fractals and food, specifically fruit and vegetables:
Although the use of the word fractal does not seem to have been made before the 20th century, the ideas of repetitive self-similarity in progressively smaller scales had already emerged at least as early…