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October 1, 2022
Please visit https://community.amstat.org/copss/home for details of eligibility and nomination requirements for all these awards. Please send nominations (preferably by e-mail in PDF format) to the committee chairs by December 15, 2022. Presidents’ Award The Presidents’ Award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies…

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Contributing Editor Radu Craiu (University of Toronto) writes: This Summer’s spirit was airborne. And by that I don’t mean that it went up in smoke, European heatwaves notwithstanding, but rather that it was a summer of freedom—an imponderable feeling that is, alas, most relished when it is seriously threatened. I…

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Hongyu Zhao received his BS in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1990 and PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He is currently the Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, and Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Professor of Genetics at Yale University.  Hongyu’s research interests…

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Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng has been in a case of repeated mistaken identity—a result, perhaps, of people seeing what they hope to see. He cautions against doing the same with your data… If I am fortunate to have you as a frequent reader of the XL-Files, you might recall…

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Deadline: November 1, 2022. Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The names of student members who submit correct solutions to either or both of these puzzles, and the answer, will be published in the issue following the deadline. The Puzzle

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