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February 16, 2018
Bhramar Mukherjee from University of Michigan writes: Congratulations to Tyler J. VanderWeele of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award. This award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies of the Committee of Presidents

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Following “guest puzzler” Stanislav Volkov’s rotating wheel probability puzzle (solution below), Anirban DasGupta sets a statistics puzzle: This is one of those quick-and-dirty methods, popularized by John Tukey, one that makes some intuitive sense, and can be very quickly implemented. This issue’s problem is about testing the equality of two…

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The IMS Elections this year are for the IMS President and five places on Council. The nominees are: For IMS President: Susan Murphy For IMS Council: Vivek S. Borkar Vanja Dukic Christina Goldschmidt Ruth Heller Susan Holmes Xihong Lin Richard Lockhart Gabor Lugosi Nicolai Meinshausen Kerrie Mengersen You can read…

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February 5, 2018
A new issue of STATISTICAL SCIENCE has been published. You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/sts/sts_33_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 the Institute…

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A new issue of THE ANNALS of PROBABILITY has been published. You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_46_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…

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