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December 14, 2018
Are you bringing a child to the next IMS Annual Meeting (i.e. JSM in Denver, July 27 – August 1, 2019)? Apply to the IMS Child Care Initiative, and the IMS will reimburse 80% of the costs of privately arranged child care (for a dependent under 13), up to a…
Anirban DasGupta writes:
I thought it would be revealing and entertaining to look at the recently concluded US midterm election results and make some conclusions. Who is voting Republican? What is, really, the Republican base? And what about the Democrats? Are the bases entirely disjoint? Is the base more scattered…
Michael P. Cohen, American Institutes for Research, is a founding member of a new group, and he would like you to join him:
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has a brand new History of Statistics Interest Group (HoSIG). Membership in ASA is not required to join. Anyone interested in the…
Frank Rudolf Hampel, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, passed away in Thalwil near Zurich, Switzerland, on October 2, at the age of 77.
Frank Hampel was well known for his fundamental contributions to robust statistics, in particular for the introduction of the basic concepts of influence function and breakdown point.…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College London) has been thinking about the ethical, social and policy challenges associated with the rise and rise of “big data”:
Data ethics seem to be the flavour of the month. In the UK alone, the establishment of the National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory…