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December 19, 2012
“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…
November 18, 2012
15th IMS New Researchers Conference,
jointly sponsored by the IMS and the SSC
August 1–3, 2013 at the Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal, Québec, Canada
The 15th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and jointly sponsored…
Featuring news items about S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Alan Karr, and Dipak Dey. .
Swedish University gives Honorary Doctorate to Jammalamadaka
Professor S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, who is an ISI Member and Fellow of the ASA and IMS, has…
