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September 4, 2014
Photographs taken at the IMS Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Australian Statistical Conference, July 7-10, 2014.
Iowa State student team wins international data mining competition
A team of Iowa State University graduate students topped 98 other universities from 28 countries to capture first place in the 15th annual Data Mining Cup. Prudsys AG, a leading European data mining company, sponsors the intelligent-data analysis competition for universities.…
Contributing Editor Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at RStudio and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Rice University. He is interested in building better tools for data science. His work includes R packages for data analysis (ggplot2, plyr, reshape2); packages that make R less frustrating (lubridate for dates, stringr for strings,…
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 EXTENDED to November 1, 2014. The names and …
Robert Adler continues his series of articles on Topology, Probability and Statistics:
In my previous column (in the March 2014 issue) I introduced TOPOS as an acronym for Topology, Probability and Statistics, and promised three more columns to convince you that this combination is, today, producing elegant mathematics, powerful…