Interview: Dietrich Stoyan Elja Arjas kindly agreed to interview Dietrich Stoyan, a renowned German probabilist, statistician, and an IMS Fellow, who has written an unusual book about his rather unusual life. Dietrich was born in 1940, at the time when WWII was raging in Europe. He lost his father in…

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Radu V. Craiu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He writes: This past summer I was asked in a Q&A session what I consider to be a “sexy” topic in statistics [1]. Not being able to speak about sexiness in front…

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A new issue of Annals of Applied Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: http://www.imstat.org/publications/aoas/aoas_12_4/aoas_12_4.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…

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ALEXANDRIA, VA (November 12, 2018): The International Prize in Statistics has been awarded to Bradley Efron, professor of statistics and biomedical data science at Stanford University, in recognition of the “bootstrap,” a method he developed in 1977 for assessing the uncertainty of scientific results that has had extraordinary impact across…

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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: http://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_54_4/aihp_54_4.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…

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