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September 1, 2018
Contributing Editor David Hand, Imperial College London, examines some of the pitfalls of administrative data (information collected primarily for business or organizational, not research, purposes):
A great deal of statistical analysis is aimed at making inferences from a sample to a population. This might be with a view to predicting…
Nicholas Horton (Amherst College) was a co-author of the recent National Academies consensus study report that is available for free download from https://nas.edu/envisioningds. He writes:
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of data science, revolutionizing industry and science. The NSF-funded National Academies consensus report entitled Undergraduate Data Science: …
Radu V. Craiu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He writes:
These are interesting times for statistical science departments throughout the world. The demand for a statistician’s expertise is at an all-time high across a multitude of sectors: tech, finance, health…
Anirban DasGupta, Purdue University, writes:
Thriyambakam Krishnan, former Dean of Academic Studies and Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, passed away in Chennai, India on July 4; he was 81. Jointly with G.J. McLachlan he authored the masterly and popular Wiley text on the EM algorithm and its applications. Dr.…
Shane Henderson (Cornell University) is Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Systems, an IMS-affiliated journal. He writes:
After more than six years being published through a cooperative agreement between the IMS and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Applied Probability Society (APS), Stochastic Systems has become an INFORMS journal.…