News
December 19, 2012
The IMS Child Care Initiative is designed to encourage and support the participation at IMS Annual Meetings of IMS members who have child care responsibilities. This year’s IMS Annual Meeting takes place at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal, Canada, from August 3–8, 2013. The IMS will reimburse members 80%…
The IMS Laha Awards provide funds for students and new researchers to travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting (at JSM in Montreal this year). The application deadline has been extended to March 1, 2013.
In selecting these awards, first priority is given to students, second priority…
“Why is the denominator in the sample mean n, but the denominator for the sample variance is n−1?” a reader asked me. My answer needs to be comprehensible to his grand-daughter, who we can safely say is not doing an advanced degree in statistics at an institution of…
December 8, 2012
Friday, December 7 marks the start of MPE2013. You can view the official press release here, Or visit http://mpe2013.org/newsroom-2/ to view it in French or Spanish, and see other news relating to MPE2013.
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Dear IMS Members:
ASA has sent out an appeal to its members to urge US politicians tooppose budget cuts of research and statistical agencies. The IMS presidents (current, past and elect) think that this is an issue that is critically important to our US members, and thus we have decided…