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March 31, 2014
Announcing Statistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook published by SSC – in Celebration of the International Year of Statistics
Jerry Lawless writes:
In early 2013 the Statistical Society of Canada commissioned a volume of expository articles in celebration of the 2013 International Year of Statistics. The resulting book Statistics in …
Stéphane Boucheron works in the Statistics Group at the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Université Paris Diderot. He writes as one of our team of Contributing Editors:
Since 2011, the growing hype around Big Data has provoked mixed reactions among statisticians. For a while, there will be jobs in…
Xiaoming Huo, Program Director for Statistics, Computational and Data-enabled Science & Engineering at NSF, writes:
CDS&E-MSS (Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) is a relatively new funding opportunity that is managed by the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand writes:
George Box once said “You have a big approximation and a small approximation. The big approximation is your approximation to the problem you want to solve. The small approximation is involved in getting the solution to the approximate problem.” In a similar vein, John…
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 May 1, 2014.
The names and affiliations of …