News
December 13, 2013
We are pleased to announce the IMS Child Care Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members having child care responsibilities.
The IMS will reimburse members 80% of the costs of privately arranged child care* at the IMS…
November 20, 2013
Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). Nominations are an important part of the process, and everyone can contribute—from the newly minted PhD graduate to the pharmaceutical statistician to the…
November 17, 2013
Dimitris Politis writes:
Why is that in adult life three years pass in an eye-blink while in high school they seem an eternity? Do we perceive time on a logarithmic scale as in the Weber–Fechner law of perception of sensations? Or is it that we pack our days so full…
Featuring news about Terry Speed, Kenneth P. Burnham, Sally Morton
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng recently officiated at the wedding of two young colleagues. He writes:
The International Year of Statistics seems to have brought me some unusually exciting, and challenging, speaking opportunities. The last XL-Files documented my 24 second Ig Nobel fame, which came with the grand challenge of…