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November 15, 2020
A couple more IMS members wrote to share what they have been working on, around COVID-19. If you’d like a mention in the next issue, please contact ims@imstat.org (send a paragraph about your work, and a link to the paper, or location where interested readers can find out more). Our

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The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies held its “COPSS and Friends” meeting in August, with representatives from COPSS itself (Bhramar Mukherjee and Huixia Judy Wang), and from its founding societies: the American Statistical Association, ASA (Wendy Martinez, Ron Wasserstein), Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society, ENAR (Michael Daniels,…

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ISI marks the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science Join the International Statistical Institute, ISI, in celebrating the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science (#IYWSDS) from May 2020 through July 2021. The IYWSDS was launched on 12 May 2020 with commemorating the 200th anniversary…

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Student Puzzle editor Anirban DasGupta set a problem about random walks, in the October/November issue. The deadline for submitting your solution is December 1, 2020. See the puzzle here.…

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The IMS Treasurer’s annual report was published on page 16 of the September 2020 issue of the IMS Bulletin, which you can download from the website at https://imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bulletin49_6-TR.pdf. The report details membership and subscription data for the calendar year end 2019. The 2019 fiscal year-end audit report has now…

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