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February 16, 2015
The NISS Board of Trustees established the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research in 2000 to honor Sacks’ service as the founding director of NISS. The annual prize of $1,000, to be presented this year at the NISS/SAMSI Joint Statistical Meetings Reception in Seattle, Washington, recognizes high- quality cross-disciplinary research…
Two new books in the IMS Textbooks series have been published. They are: The Surprising Mathematics of Longest Increasing Subsequences by Dan Romik (IMS member price with 40% discount is USD 59.40 for the hardback [non-member price USD 99.00] or USD 23.99 paperback [USD 39.99]); and Noise Sensitivity of Boolean …
Contributing Editor Robert Adler writes:
This is the fourth, and final, of my columns on the Topology, Probability, and Statistics triad. You might recall that the common thread was TDA, or Topological Data Analysis. I started by advertising TDA in a casual commercial for the IMS community, continued with some…
Jiashun Jin is Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2003. He was a faculty member at Purdue University from 2003 to 2007, after which he joined the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he remains a faculty…
Contributing Editor David Hand writes:
Reading my co-columnist Xiao-Li Meng’s column The XL-Files in the January/February 2015 issue made me realise I hadn’t written a column about The Improbability Principle, my book which appeared early in 2014. Xiao-Li wrote, “Winning the lottery or being struck by lightning are both…