Innovative usages of natural experiments and causal inference in statistics and data science Natural experiments are an ingenious way to estimate causal effects in situations where randomised experiments are not possible. They have emerged as a standard topic in statistics, data science and econometrics, with The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in…

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The designation of IMS Fellow has been a significant honor for 90 years. Each Fellow has demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field.   Francesco Bartolucci University of Perugia For outstanding contributions to theory, computing, and application of latent…

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Chengchun Shi of the London School of Economics and Political Science has received the 2025 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Shi receives the award “for ground-breaking contributions to the development of a wide range of statistical methods and advanced tools in reinforcement learning and their applications to…

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A new issue of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_61_2/aihp_61_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_53_2/aos_53_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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