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April 2, 2013
IMS Collections 9: From Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes — A Festschrift in Honor of Jon A. Wellner Editors: M. Banerjee, F. Bunea, J. Huang, V. Koltchinskii, M.H. Maathuis Read free online, or order a print copy ($107.80) at: http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&page=toc&handle=euclid.imsc/1362751167 For more than thirty years, Jon…

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2013 Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences Call for Nominations The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), are pleased to request nominations for the Twelfth Annual Janet…

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In this issue, Terry Speed surveys the history of least squares, which has applications to life, the universe and everything…

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March 24, 2013
NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series in Probability and Statistics, Volume 9 “Nonparametric Bayesian Inference” by Peter Müller and Abel Rodriguez The notes provide an overview of some popular Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) probability models. The discussion follows a logical development of many commonly used nonparametric Bayesian models as generalizations of the Dirichlet…

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From Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes — A Festschrift in Honor of Jon A. Wellner Editors: M. Banerjee, F. Bunea, J. Huang, V. Koltchinskii and M. H. Maathuis For more than thirty years, Jon A. Wellner has made outstanding contributions to several very active and important…

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