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It is with great sadness that we report the passing away of Peter Gavin Hall on January 9, 2016, in Melbourne, Australia. He was 64. During the past four decades Peter was a monumental figure in the statistics community, both internationally and within his home country of Australia. Peter was…

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We are pleased to introduce the new editors for four of the IMS journals—Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Applied Probability, Annals of Statistics and Electronic Journal of Statistics— whose terms start January 1, 2016. The Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS) has a new Editor-in-Chief, Tilmann Gneiting, who has been…

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Susan Murphy is the H.E. Robbins Distinguished University Professor of Statistics & Professor of Psychiatry and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. Her research focuses on improving sequential, individualized, decision making in health, in particular on clinical trial design and data analysis to inform the development of…

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Evarist Giné-Masdeu, known as Evarist Giné, last June at the conference in his honor in Cambridge, UK Evarist Giné-Masdeu—or just Evarist Giné—passed away on March 13 in Hartford, CT. He was a significant contributor and co-creator of several branches of modern probability theory that have been profoundly influential, in particular…

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Terry Speed is in love… with ideas. He recalls the influence of Wiener and Rissanen on his work with Bin Yu, just inducted into the National Academy of Sciences

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