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December 15, 2023
Dr. Nina Deliu, YoungStatS editorial board member, talked with Professor Susan Athey, Stanford University.
Susan Athey is The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and serves as the 2023 President of the…
In the September 2022 issue, in an “Invitation to Research” section, Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, Senior Statistician at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, [US] National Institutes of Health, invited members to collaborate on Quantitative Perturbation Theory for Stochastic Processes. He followed that up in the October/November 2023…
Abstract submission is now open for the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). Its Program Chair, Debashis Ghosh, explains the progress made on the program so far, and outlines the remaining opportunities to present your research at one the largest statistical events in the world:
JSM 2024 will be held in…
Anirban DasGupta sets two puzzles, one on probability and one on statistics, about Erdős–Rényi graphs, among the most basic models of random graphs. Random graphs are used to model network data. Take a vertex set equal to $\{1, 2, \cdots , n\}$ where $n \geq 2$. Given two distinct vertices…
Theo Gasser died on October 1, 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland, where he was Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Biostatistics at the University of Zürich, at the age of 82.
Theo Gasser was born on May 9, 1941, in Rüti, Switzerland. Gasser established Biostatistics at the University of Zürich starting…