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July 17, 2013
The annual IMS Council election results are in! We are pleased to announce that the next IMS President-Elect is Erwin Bolthausen.
This year 12 candidates stood for six places on Council (including one two-year term to fill the place vacated by Erwin Bolthausen). The new IMS Council members are: Richard…
Featuring news about David Donoho; Kathryn Roeder; Maurice Priestley; C R Rao; Donald Richards; Wenbo Li
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Giving a banquet speech after a whole conference day is never easy—few people long for yet another speech. My recent speech also faced an extra challenge. The speech was scheduled after as many karaoke performances as the number of Chinese dishes, except that the former…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
It might well be an exercise in frivolity, but I see a common thread between Sherlock Holmes and the bootstrap. It’s randomized inference. A standard example in a statistics class is that if a coin is tossed 20 times, the 5% UMP unbiased test concludes…
July 16, 2013
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
GEORGE EDWARD PELHAM BOX, professor emeritus of Statistics and of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the age of 93. George founded the Department of Statistics…