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July 1, 2014
Contributing Editor David Hand writes:
How should we measure national wellbeing? The first stage in answering such a question is deciding exactly what it is that we’re talking about. It’s clear, at least for national wellbeing, that the definition of what we want to measure and the procedure we construct…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Life sometimes teases us. The older one gets, and hence the shorter future one has to contemplate, the more often one is asked to predict the future. I keep being invited to speculate about our future. But asking a statistician to predict the future of statistics is…
The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search.
Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). Deadline August 15, 2014.
The names and affiliations of …
8th International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2015: Call for Minisymposia
Beijing, China
August 10–14, 2015
This congress is the main activity of the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), held every four years. In 2015 it will be in Beijing from August 10–14. IMS joined ICIAM…
Jean Opsomer, IMS Treasurer, reports:
During the final two months of last year, IMS conducted a brief survey of its membership. The goal of the survey was to assess the demographic characteristics of the membership, something that had not been previously done. The results, described below, provide the first ever…