News
September 5, 2018
The September 2018 issue of the IMS Bulletin is online: download your PDF copy from https://imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/Bulletin47_6.pdf. Contents include:
President Xiao-Li Meng’s Message (IMS: Younger, Broader, and Deeper)
Members’ news: ASA Fellows; Don Rubin, Edo Airoldi; Mike West; Richard De Veaux, Mark Glickman, Alyson Wilson, Ofer Harel
Nominate IMS lecturers…
September 1, 2018
Xiao-Li Meng is the IMS President for 2018–19. He writes:
No vibrant society would want as its president someone who feels entitled to the honor, or treats it as an honorary title. I am therefore honored by your trust, and shall do my best to earn the honor. No society…
The American Statistical Association elected 60 new Fellows this year, among whom are 16 IMS members and/or Fellows: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Moulinath Banerjee, Aurore Delaigle, Peter David Hoff, Bing-Yi Jing, Christina Kendziorski, James O. Ramsay, Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Peter X. Song, Zhiqiang Tan, Boxin Tang, Huixia Judy Wang, Lan Wang, Yichao…
IMS Fellow Don Rubin, IMS member Edo Airoldi, and Vishesh Karwa, have all joined the Department of Statistical Science at Temple University’s Fox School of Business.
Donald B. Rubin, professor of statistics at Yau Mathematics Center, Tsinghua University, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, has been appointed Murray Schusterman Senior…
In May of 2016, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistical Society (JSS) jointly created the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the late Dr. Hirotugu Akaike. Dr. Akaike greatly influenced a wide range of research by proposing the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)…