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November 15, 2024
What are the factors that make some university statistics departments go from rags to riches… and vice versa? Contributing Editor Radu Craiu, University of Toronto, has been thinking about this:
In an election year, one hears a lot about “haves” and “have nots” and how the gap between them is…
Yuan Jiang, Armeen Taeb, and Pragya Sur report:
The 24th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (NRC) convened at Oregon State University from July 31 to August 3, 2024: see https://nrc2024.github.io/index. The conference was attended by 68 emerging researchers and 14 senior speakers and panelists, hailing from…
In the previous issue, the article about the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society referred to DAGStat, a consortium of statistical societies in Germany. Katja Ickstadt, professor at TU Dortmund University and DAGStat chairperson, and Sarah Friedrich-Welz, professor at University of Augsburg and secretary of DAGStat, tell…
The winners of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Awards in 2024 were announced in the April/May issue. This year, COPSS awarded the E. L. Scott Award and Lectureship to Regina Liu, the Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship to Robert Tibshirani, and the Presidents’ Award to Veronika …
Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). Nominations are an important part of the process, and everyone can contribute—from the newest to most senior members of our societies. We recognize…