Yoram Gat, one of our new Contributing Editors, describes himself in his blog (also called Pro Bono Statistics) like this: “I am a statistician and software engineer, living in Israel. My interests include politics (theory and practice) and statistics (theory and practice).” Yoram said the inspiration for the title…

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The IMS has eight funds that are open to contributions, detailed below. The Institute would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for contributing to the IMS. If you would like to make a contribution, please visit http://imstat.org/membership/gift.htm. Blackwell Lecture Fund The Blackwell Lecture Fund is used to…

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Shahjahan Khan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, reports on the workshop on Evidence-based Decision and Statistical Meta-Analysis with Application, sponsored by the Government of Brunei: The Department of Planning, Development and Research (DPDR) of the Ministry of Education, Government of Brunei Darussalam, organised a three-day workshop on Evidence-based Decision and…

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Once again Terry Speed is discovering that it’s never too late to learn new things in statistics

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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_45_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…

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