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July 1, 2014
A Folk Festival: The 7th China R Conference (May 24-25, Beijing)
Xizhi Wu, Professor of statistics, Renmin University of China, reports on the latest conference in a series he has helped to organize:
More than 1800 enthusiastic participants (including those unregistered) of various data-related disciplines, from more than 600 organizations…
Planning a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research
Jim Pitman and Clifford Lynch were members of the Committee on Planning a Global Library of the Mathematical Sciences, which wrote the report discussed here. Other members were Ingrid Daubechies, Kathleen Carley, Timothy Cole, Judith Klavans, Yann LeCun, Michael Lesk, Peter…
Jean Opsomer writes:
In January 2014, Statistics Without Borders (SWB) emailed its members about a request from the Rwanda Biomedical Center. There was a need for training in survey data analysis, and the R programming language. The classes would be in English, and the students would have some statistics background.…
Terry Speed is thinking about how “ithers” see us, and what we can do to make ourselves more appealing…
June 12, 2014
President Elect
Richard Davis
Council
For a 3 year termPeter BühlmannFlorentina BuneaGeoffrey Grimmett Aad van der VaartNaisyin Wang
For a 2 year termJonathan Taylor
Click here to view the elected member profiles.…