Bruce G. Lindsay, 68, passed away at home, surrounded by his family, on the morning of May 5. Bruce was holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics at Penn State University, where he joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1979 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at…

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Moshe Shaked, a leading figure in stochastic orders and distribution theory, died unexpectedly on October 28, 2014, in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 69. Shaked is survived by his wife of 37 years, Edith; his son Tal; his two daughters, Shanna and Lila; his daughter in law, Carrie; his…

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Shahjahan Khan from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Toowoomba, Australia, recently organized this meeting: The School of Agricultural, Computational, and Environmental Sciences; and Division of Research and Innovation of the USQ hosted a workshop on “Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications” in collaboration with the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. The…

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The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. Available for nomination this year are the 2017 Wald and Neyman Lecturers, and the 2018 Medallion Lecturers. See instructions at https://imstat.org/ims-awards/. The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2015.…

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Susan Murphy is the H.E. Robbins Distinguished University Professor of Statistics & Professor of Psychiatry and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. Her research focuses on improving sequential, individualized, decision making in health, in particular on clinical trial design and data analysis to inform the development of…

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