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August 31, 2023
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honors statisticians
Maya Sternberg, COPSS secretary/treasurer writes: The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presented the 2023 awards at JSM in Toronto on August 9. The awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: IMS, the American Statistical Association, the Eastern and…
IMS: What does it stand for? What could it stand for?
Peter Bühlmann gave the Presidential Address at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto. The following text is based on his slides, which you can view here.
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Ryan Tibshirani wins the prestigious 2023 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Ryan Tibshirani is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie broadly in statistics, machine learning (ML), and optimization and more specifically in high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric estimation, distribution-free inference, convex optimization, and…
Xiao-Li Meng chats some more about ChatGPT, following his XL-Files in the April/May 2023 issue:
Since my first encounter with it in March, ChatGPT, along with its many emerging siblings and cousins (some out of wedlock), has rapidly evolved into a “promptbot,” by which I’m not referring only to…
Past-President Peter Bühlmann is pleased to introduce some new Friends:
Statistics and Data Science are of crucial importance in very many areas of society, with people working in academia, industry or government. To strengthen scientific exchange across fields, IMS has created a new membership category named Industry Friends of IMS …