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October 2, 2015
The deadline for the Student Puzzle printed in the last issue is October 20, 2015, so there is still time to enter! The puzzle appears at https://imstat.org/2015/08/student-puzzle-corner-11/. We await your submission!…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians.” This prediction by Professor Hal Varian in January 2009 (in The McKinsey Quarterly) has been quoted so frequently that if I were him, I’d have been worried whether I’d be remembered for…
The World Statistics Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2010 to recognize the importance of statistics in shaping our societies. The holding of national and regional statistical days was already a tradition in more than 100 countries, but the General Assembly’s adoption of this international day…
Submit your abstract by October 15, 2015, for the 2016 ENAR Spring Meeting (March 6–9, 2016, in Austin, Texas). October 15 is also the submission deadline for the Distinguished Student Paper Awards.
The ENAR scientific program will cover topics of interest to researchers and practitioners, such as data science (big…
Traditionally, mentoring is seen as an older person imparting wisdom, but Terry Speed points out that it can be a two-way process. So how should we mentor?