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December 15, 2023
Abstract submission is now open for the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). Its Program Chair, Debashis Ghosh, explains the progress made on the program so far, and outlines the remaining opportunities to present your research at one the largest statistical events in the world:
JSM 2024 will be held in…
Anirban DasGupta sets two puzzles, one on probability and one on statistics, about Erdős–Rényi graphs, among the most basic models of random graphs. Random graphs are used to model network data. Take a vertex set equal to $\{1, 2, \cdots , n\}$ where $n \geq 2$. Given two distinct vertices…
Theo Gasser died on October 1, 2023 in Zürich, Switzerland, where he was Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Biostatistics at the University of Zürich, at the age of 82.
Theo Gasser was born on May 9, 1941, in Rüti, Switzerland. Gasser established Biostatistics at the University of Zürich starting…
Colin Lingwood Mallows was born on September 10, 1930, in Great Sampford, a small village in Essex, England. His father was the village policeman, who later became Chief Inspector at the police headquarters in Chelmsford, responsible for education and record-keeping with regard to road safety. In this role his father…
WNAR / IMS / Graybill 2024
June 9–12, 2024
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
https://wnar.org/wnar2024
The 2024 meeting of the Western North American Region of the IBS will be held jointly with the 2024 Graybill Conference. There will be short courses, a plenary lecture, Graybill keynote speech and keynote panels from…