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August 29, 2013
COPSS, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (IMS, ASA, SSC and ENAR/WNAR) presented its 2013 awards to four IMS members, three of whom are Fellows, at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal on August 7.
The biannual George W. Snedecor Award honors an individual who was instrumental in the…
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Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
As an assistant professor in late 1995, working on a unit-root AR(1) model, I came across a cute way of calculating moments with negative or fractional powers by integrating—not differentiating—a moment-generating function (MGF). Like many junior researchers, I was eager to turn my findings into…
János Engländer reports:
The 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications was held on the beautiful campus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, from July 29 to August 2, 2013. There were 250 participants. The international scientific committee was chaired by Steve Lalley (Chicago), and the local organizers were…
Johanna G. Nešlehová and Aarti Singh report on the 15th IMS New Researchers Conference, jointly sponsored by the IMS and the SSC:
The 15th edition of the IMS New Researchers Conference took place at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) in Montréal, from August 1 to August 3, 2013. Because…