News
December 14, 2018
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…
There is still time to nominate your outstanding colleagues and collaborators IMS Fellowship or for the Carver medal.
A candidate for the IMS Fellowship [see Philip Protter’s article here]shall have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability, by publication of independent work of merit. This qualification may be…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is January 25, 2019.
Anirban DasGupta says:
The previous problem on inference based on the distribution of a nonsufficient statistic required the use of …
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_1/aop_47_1.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/
For more information on journals published or supported by…