We are saddened to report that Wolfgang Wefelmeyer lost his life after a road accident in January 2024, at the age of just 74. Wolfgang Wefelmeyer spent most of his career at the University of Cologne in Germany. He studied Mathematics there and stayed on as a postgraduate under the…

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Dr. Anant Madhav Kshirsagar, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biostatistics, School of Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, died on June 20, 2023, at Ann Arbor. His career was exceptional from the beginning. He passed his matriculation examination at the age of 12 from Sangli, a small town…

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A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_52_2/aos_52_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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A new issue of Statistical Science has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/sts/sts_39_2/sts_39_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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Edgar Dobriban of the University of Pennsylvania has received the 2024 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Dobriban receives the award “for deep, fundamental, and wide-ranging contributions to mathematical statistics and statistical machine learning, including high-dimensional asymptotics (ridge regression, PCA), multiple testing, randomization tests, scalable statistical learning via…

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