William (Bill) Strawderman, a brilliant mathematical statistician and a wonderful colleague and leader, passed away on October 1, 2024. Born on April 25, 1941, Bill received a BS in Engineering Mathematics from University of Rhode Island in 1963, an MS in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1965, and an MS…

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As you may recall from the previous issue, Xiao-Li Meng promised to reveal how a statistician like him found a path to partnering with leaders in the wine industry. All will be revealed in this and the following two installments of the XL-Files. Here, we are reprinting—with permission and…

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David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the selection committee for the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize, awarded as previously announced to Yoav Benjamini, Ruth Heller and Daniel Yekutieli (with posthumous acknowledgment to Yosef Hochberg). David gave the following speech at the award presentation. Introduction I was honoured to be…

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A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_52_5/aos_52_5.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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A new issue of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_60_4/aihp_60_4.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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