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November 15, 2025
Linjun Zhang continues with the second in our invited series of articles on LLMs and AI, and their implications for the statistics profession. Should statisticians be worried about being replaced or left behind? Or should we, in fact, seize this opportunity and lead our neighboring disciplines? Linjun argues that the…
Professor Emeritus Richard (Dick) Lynn Dykstra passed away peacefully on September 19, 2025. Dick received his PhD in 1968 from the University of Iowa, where his doctoral work on characterizing a conditional expectation with respect to a sigma-lattice was advised by Tim Robertson and Jon Cryer. Dick then worked at…
David F. Findley passed away in June 2025 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. David was born in Washington DC on December 27, 1940. He earned a BS (1962) and MA (1963) in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati. He then lived in Germany, studying functional analysis under Gottfried Köthe, obtaining…
It is with intense sadness that we announce the passing of Harry van Zanten at the age of 52. For the last few years, he coped with a cancer that sadly turned out to be untreatable. He leaves behind his wife Carolien and two sons Hero and Midas, family and…
The PDF version of the December 2025 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF. You can also read selected articles at https://imstat.org/news/.
Contents include:
IMS Thelma & Marvin Zelen Award winners
IMS lecturers in 2026
Rousseeuw Prize nominations
IMS Presidential Address 2025: Statistics at the Crossroads…