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October 2, 2017
The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2017 Rao Prize Conference on May 12, 2017, where three outstanding prize recipients were honored. The 2017 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize recipient was Donald B. Rubin, the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. Paul R. Rosenbaum

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Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng has attended some great meetings, with exotic acronyms, over the summer. He writes: No, these are not Chinglish or Pinyin. If you haven’t heard of ISIPTA-ECSQARU, then you are in the good company of 95–99% of statisticians and probabilists. I certainly hadn’t, until BFF4 (https://imstat.org/2017/05/xl-files-bayesian-fiducial-and-frequentist-bff4ever/

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The October/November 2017 issue of the IMS Bulletin is online. You can read the whole issue as a PDF (download from http://www.imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/bulletin/Bulletin46_7.pdf) or read articles online at http://bulletin.imstat.org. Contents include: President’s Message: Alison Etheridge Members’ News: Donald Rubin, Paul Rosenbaum, Satish Iyengar, Karen Kafadar, Walter Rosenkrantz Nomination for…

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September 25, 2017
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_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 the…

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September 21, 2017
A new issue of BERNOULLI has been published.You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_24_2.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 of Mathematical…

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