The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistical Society (JSS) jointly created the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the late Dr. Hirotugu Akaike, who greatly influenced a wide range of research by proposing the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and establishing a novel paradigm…

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The following were elected: President-Elect Krzysztof (Chris) Burdzy Council – For a 3-year term Tony Cai Richard Davis Alice Guionnet Martin Wainwright Fang Yao Click here to view the profiles of these IMS elected officials.…

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The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (TDS) journal is coming to an end.  ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) have jointly set up an EiC search committee to identify a team of 2-3 EiCs that span the…

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A new issue of Annals of Applied Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aoas/aoas_14_2/aoas_14_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 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_56_3/aihp_56_3.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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