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October 1, 2014
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
In addition to increasingly frequent requests to predict the future (see the last XL-Files), another sure sign of “professional aging” is being asked to talk about leadership. Just this past summer alone, I served on ICSA–KISS and IMS–NRC panels on leadership (while still sharpening my…
WNAR (the Western North American Region of The International Biometric Society) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics combine each year to hold the IMS-sponsored WNAR/IMS meeting: this year it was in the lovely location of Honolulu, Hawaii. Wesley Johnson, professor of statistics at the University of California, Irvine, was one…
Terry Speed returns to the topic of gender equity, and wonders how can we learn from the model of Male Champions of Change?
The Treasurer’s Report was printed in the June/July 2014 issue. The Financial Statements are printed in the PDF version of the October/November 2014 issue, or you can download them as a separate PDF here.…
The Bernoulli Society recently approved the establishment of the Ethel Newbold Prize for excellence in statistics, to be awarded every two years beginning in 2015. The name of the prize recognizes a historically important role of women in statistics. The prize itself is for excellence in statistics without reference to…