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August 31, 2023
IMS members receiving American Statistical Association (ASA) awards at JSM The ASA announced the following awards to IMS members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto. David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto. Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship in Statistics Award, Honorable Mentions:…

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Adrian Raftery, the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology and an adjunct professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, is the 2023 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. His talk is on October 25, 2023, at Florida State University and online. See stat.fsu.edu/HollanderLecture.…

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Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors statisticians Maya Sternberg, COPSS secretary/treasurer writes: The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presented the 2023 awards at JSM in Toronto on August 9. The awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: IMS, the American Statistical Association, the Eastern and…

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IMS: What does it stand for? What could it stand for? Peter Bühlmann gave the Presidential Address at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto. The following text is based on his slides, which you can view here. This is a picture of IMS: … and what follows is…

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Ryan Tibshirani wins the prestigious 2023 COPSS Presidents’ Award Ryan Tibshirani is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie broadly in statistics, machine learning (ML), and optimization and more specifically in high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric estimation, distribution-free inference, convex optimization, and…

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