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May 15, 2019
Contributing Editor David Hand, Imperial College London, explains how a US state lottery was gamed: We statisticians all know that buying lottery tickets is a fool’s game. Unless, that is, you regard the warm glow from dreaming about what you would do if you did win as worth the cost…

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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_55_2/aihp_55_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/ For more information on journals published or…

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May 14, 2019
Congratulations to the 2019 IMS Fellows! Edoardo M. Airoldi, For methodological contributions to modeling network data and theoretical contributions to random geometric hypergraphs. Cristina Butucea, For deep and original contributions to non-parametric statistics, inverse problems, and quantum statistics. Victor Chernozhukov, For path-breaking contributions to high-dimensional inference. Jeng-Min Chiou, For contributions…

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May 6, 2019
The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. The following lectures are available for nomination in 2019. Information on all lectures can be found here: https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/ 2020 & 2021 Wald Lecturers 2020 Le Cam Lecturer 2022 Medallion Lecturers Deadline is Oct 1. To…

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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_3/aop_47_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/ For more information on journals published or supported by…

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