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February 16, 2012
Rajshahi University Statistics Department held its Golden Jubilee Celebrations on December 23–24, 2011, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the department. The Statistics Department at Rajshahi University, Bangladesh, was founded by the late Professor Khondkar Manwar Hossain in 1961. It was through his dedicated efforts that the…
The 11th biennial Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-11) has elected Professor Ali S. Hadi of The American University of Cairo (AUC), Egypt as the new President of the Islamic Counties Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS). He became the President-elect in December 2009. He takes over the role of…
March 1, 2012 is the deadline for requests for NIMBioS support for Working Groups, Investigative Workshops, Postdoctoral Fellows, Sabbaticals, and Short-term Visitors for activities beginning summer/fall 2012. All areas of research at the interface of biology and mathematics will be considered, but we are especially interested in activities expanding beyond…
Hira L. Koul, President of the Indian Statistical Association, writes: The Indian Statistical Association was established in 1960 at Bombay (now Mumbai). The late Professor M.C. Chakrabarty, the founding Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Bombay, was its first Secretary and Prof. A. M. Kshirsagar was the first…
In this column, Terry Speed recalls his vow always to look at a scatter plot before calculating a Pearson correlation.