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April 22, 2014
Edward Waymire, Professor of Mathematics, Oregon State University has received the 2014 Carver Medal from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
Professor Waymire receives the award for manifold contributions to the IMS in many capacities and in particular for exceptional service to the Annals of Applied Probability far beyond his…
April 1, 2014
The annual IMS elections are announced, with one candidate for President-Elect—Richard Davis—and 12 candidates standing for six places on Council. The Council nominees, in alphabetical order, are: Marek Biskup, Peter Bühlmann, Florentina Bunea, Sourav Chatterjee, Frank Den Hollander, Holger Dette, Geoffrey Grimmett, Davy Paindaveine, Kavita Ramanan, Jonathan Taylor, Aad van…
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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…