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February 19, 2019
Xiao-Li Meng writes, in his third President’s Column:
“Where should I put my name in the author list when I write a paper with my students?” is one recurring question I have been asked by junior colleagues since I earned the privilege to enjoy my senior moments. To people outside…
Reminder that Stat Sci ‘Conversations’ are available on website
If you’re reading this, you’re probably already an IMS member, and as such, have set up your free access to all IMS journals, past and present. But did you know that all Statistical Science ‘Conversations’ are now open to the public…
IMS member Jonathan Skinner has taught a free statistics class (“without math”) as part of the offerings at his local food coop, in order to spread the good word, for the past several years. He writes:
I am a retired statistician with a PhD in mathematics (1970). It struck my…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College London) counters the argument that the numbers speak for themselves: indeed they can, but they can also lie…
In 2008, in an article in Wired magazine, Chris Anderson famously wrote that “with enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.” This was in the…