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December 15, 2011
Columbia University professor emeritus Paul Meier, renowned for his work in applying statistics to medical research, died on Sunday, August 7, 2011, in New York City. He was 87. The former chairman of the Statistics department, Paul was a force in his intellectual pursuits as well as in his leadership…
We would like to bring the following message to the attention of IMS members as it may be of interest, especially in view of Peter Hall’s Presidential Address at JSM in August about assessing our professional works.
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is asking for comments on the possibility…
The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture is named in memory of a former faculty member in Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics who died of cancer in 1992, aged 34.
Each year the Lectureship is awarded to a promising biostatistical scientist who has made contributions to collaborative or methodologic research in the…
In this column, Terry Speed argues against the temptation to avoid looking hard at larger data sets. Seek…and find answers!
November 21, 2011
The IMS and the Bernoulli Society have recently cooperated to create a new joint lecture in probability and stochastic processes, named in honor of Oded Schramm. The lecture will be given annually and will be featured at meetings (co)-sponsored by the IMS or the Bernoulli Society with a strong attendance…