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Last month, the probability and statistics communities lost one of their legendary figures. Murray Rosenblatt passed away on October 9, 2019 in San Diego at the age of 93. Murray was born September 7, 1926, and raised in New York City. After graduating from the City College of New York,…

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Canadian statistician Marc Moore passed away on July 26, 2019, following a long illness. He was 77. A graduate of Université de Montréal, Canada, he was a professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal from 1971 to his retirement at the end of 2002. He was Chair of the Applied Mathematics…

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Joseph F. Heyse, a respected and influential leader in biopharmaceutical statistics, passed away May 31, 2019. He was 67. Joe Heyse joined Merck & Co., Inc., in 1976 as a statistician supporting preclinical research and immediately began to develop statistical methods that subsequently became industry standards. In 1987, Joe began…

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We mark the passing of Dr. Joel Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, on December 5, 2018, at his home in Westlake Village, California. He was 72 years old. Joel was born on March 16, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York. His family said, about Joel’s early attraction to…

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David Hinkley, who died peacefully at his home in California on 11 January 2019, made important and broad-ranging contributions to statistical theory and methods. David was born on 10 September 1944 in Kent, England. After leaving school he studied mathematics and statistics at the University of Birmingham, where he was…

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