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December 16, 2014
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Perhaps because of my adventure a year ago officiating Yves and Victoria’s happy wedding (see December 2013 XL-Flies), I was invited back to the same church a year later to speak, for five minutes, at one of its Morning Prayers. Repeating my reaction to the Ig…
Hadley Wickham writes:
The best way to impact the world as a data scientist or statistician is to be useful. This column gives my advice on being useful:
• Write code
• Work in the open
• Teach
• Tell the world
(There are lots of other ways to be…
The purpose of the IMS Child Care Initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. This year’s meeting is at JSM in Seattle, WA, USA, August 8–13, 2015.
The IMS will reimburse members 80% of the costs of…
Thilaksha Tharanganie, who is a PhD student in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University, wrote to share her experiences from the Australian Statistical Conference in conjunction with the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Annual Meeting 2014.
In July 2014, I presented my PhD research work at the…
