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Our new Contributing Editor David J. Hand (Imperial College, London) writes his first column, on the subject of Big Data: Surely nobody who has the slightest awareness of what’s going on in the world can be unaware of the phrase ‘big data’. Almost every day the newspapers and television make…

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The purpose of the IMS Child Care Initiative is to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. This year’s annual meeting is in conjunction with the Australian Statistical Conference in Sydney, July 7–10. The IMS will reimburse members 80% of…

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The IMS Textbooks series, published with Cambridge University Press, give introductory accounts of topics of current concern suitable for advanced courses at master’s level, for doctoral students and for individual study. They are typically shorter than for a fully developed textbook, often arising from material created for a topical course.…

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Jean Opsomer is the Program Chair for the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, which will take place August 2–7, 2014. He writes: JSM 2014 (http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2014/index.cfm) will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts, August 2–7, 2014. As I am writing this, the members of the…

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