A new issue of THE ANNALS of STATISTICS has been published. You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_45_5.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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A new issue of THE ANNALS of APPLIED STATISTICS has been published. You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aoas/aoas_11_3.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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The American Mathematical Society has applied to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funds to support travel by U.S. based mathematicians to the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018), August 1-9, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pending this NSF funding, the Society will administer the selection, award, and…

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Alison Etheridge is IMS President, 2017–18. She writes: Well, that was it. Jon Wellner handed over the gavel (and I rapidly handed it back to Elyse for safe keeping). Tati took a picture and, before I had a chance to think about it, cheerily persuaded me to write something for…

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The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2017 Rao Prize Conference on May 12, 2017, and honored three outstanding prize recipients (and IMS members). Donald B. Rubin, the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, received the 2017 C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize (pictured above). The 2017…

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