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July 15, 2019
We mark the passing of Dr. Joel Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, on December 5, 2018, at his home in Westlake Village, California. He was 72 years old.
Joel was born on March 16, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York. His family said, about Joel’s early attraction to…
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…