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May 15, 2017
Statistics Surveys (http://imstat.org/ss/) is an online journal for expository papers about specific statistical methodology. It is an outlet for papers that are deep and magisterial reviews of subfields within statistics, such as bootstrap methodology for finite populations, spatial prediction with Big Data, or causal inference. The journal is…

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Xiao-Li Meng writes: I always enjoy making new friends, but I didn’t know the acronym “BFF” until June 17, 2014, when I attended ICSA-KISS Applied Statistical Symposium (acronym wisely avoided) in Portland, OR. A group of us got together after presenting and attending talks on distributional inferences because of our…

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This year’s six recipients of the IMS Travel Awards The IMS Travel Awards provide funding for travel to present a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting, for New Researchers who would not otherwise be able to attend. See http://www.imstat.org/awards/travel.html. We present the six recipients…

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The Applied Probability Society seeks to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of applied probability, that are written by a student. We define applied probability broadly, as any paper related to the modeling, analysis, and control of stochastic systems. The paper’s contribution may lie in the formulation of…

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Zhengjun Zhang, IMS Treasurer, writes: This report details membership and subscription data for calendar year end 2016. The 2016 fiscal year end audit report will be published separately in the Fall of 2017, after the auditors have completed the annual process. To read the complete report (in PDF format), published…

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