It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of Eugene M. Laska, PhD. Gene Laska was Research Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health, Division of Biostatistics, at New York University. Before moving full time to NYU in 2015 he served as Research Scientist and Director…

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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_3/aihp_61_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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A new issue of Annals of Applied Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aap/aap_35_4/aap_35_4.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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The 2025 IMS Council votes are counted and the results are in! We are pleased to announce that the incoming IMS President-elect is Richard Samworth. The new Executive Committee, for August 2025 to August 2026, will be comprised of: Kavita Ramanan (President); Tony Cai (Past President); Richard Samworth (President-elect);…

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Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou win 2025 ISI Founders of Statistics Prize The International Statistical Institute is pleased to announce that Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou have been awarded the 2025 Founders of Statistics Prize for Contemporary Research Contributions. This prestigious award recognizes their influential paper, “Regularization and Variable Selection…

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