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February 15, 2023
Professor Dipak Dey from University of Connecticut has been selected to receive the International Indian Statistical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognizes distinguished members of the association who represent “models of excellence” to IISA members. Specifically, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the theory, methods and application of statistics…
IMS member Lydia Suzanne Gibson was among the winners of the American Statistical Association’s travel awards, covering their registration and travel in order to attend the ASA Conference on Statistical Practice (https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/csp/2023/) which took place in San Francisco from February 2–4, 2023. Lydia won the Lingzi Lu Memorial Award, which…
Stephen B. Vardeman (Emeritus University Professor of Statistics and of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University), together with J. Marcus Jobe (Farmer School of Business, Miami University) have made freely available their open-source, high quality engineering statistics text in PDF. The book Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis…
The International Biometric Society (IBS) and Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) instituted the Florence Nightingale Award, which was first awarded in 2020 during the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The award will be presented during every International Biometric Conference (IBC) year—these are every two years, next in Buenos…
ICSDS 2022 “a huge success”; ICSDS 2023 will be in Lisbon, Portugal: Join Us!
Regina Liu and Annie Qu were the Co-organizers for the 2022 International Conference on Statistics and Data Science meeting. They write:
We are delighted to report that the inaugural ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data…