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July 15, 2019
David Hinkley, who died peacefully at his home in California on 11 January 2019, made important and broad-ranging contributions to statistical theory and methods.
David was born on 10 September 1944 in Kent, England. After leaving school he studied mathematics and statistics at the University of Birmingham, where he was…
Modern Applied Probability: a workshop in celebration of Sergey Foss’s 65th birthday, was held May 15–17, 2019, at the International Center for Mathematical Sciences, at The Bayes Centre in Edinburgh, UK. Takis Konstantopoulos reports:
This workshop was organized by two former students (Denis Denisov, University of Manchester, and Seva…
Anirban DasGupta takes a look at NASA’s temperature data from the last 100 years:
The best scientists and the best human minds have been deliberately looking at extensive global and local temperature and climate data for the past several hundred years in search of an answer to one of…
July 5, 2019
A new issue of Annals of Probability has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_47_4/aop_47_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/
For more information on journals published or supported by…
June 21, 2019
The results of the IMS election are here:
President-Elect
Regina Liu
Council
For a 3-year term
Edwin Perkins
Gesine Reinert
Christian Robert
Qi-Man Shao
Alastair Young
Amendment
Passed
Click here to view the elected officials’ profiles.…