Assemble your team! We are pleased to announce that Eurostat is organising the European Statistics Awards Programme, with competitions in the fields of nowcasting and web intelligence. By “nowcasting” we mean the forecasting of statistical indicators with extremely tight timeliness – typically before the reference period is over. Nowcasting methods…

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Radu V. Craiu writes another “Radu’s Ride”:  After more than twenty years of looking at the faces of puzzled students, I sometimes wonder where have these (many!) undergraduates ended up working, and whether they’re still confused about statistics. This is a more serious thought than you’d think, because we wrap…

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Congratulations to the 2022 Class of IMS Fellows! The designation of IMS Fellow has been a significant honor for over 85 years. Each Fellow has demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field. Jan Beran, University of Konstanz For pioneering…

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Hans-Georg Müller is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis. While in high school, he received the First Prize in the National Mathematics Competition of Germany (Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik) in 1974 and 1975, followed by a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Ulm in Germany and a MD…

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ISI is organizing a 3-day virtual course Data Science and Predictive Analytics (DSPA) in March 2022. The training will provide intermediate to advanced learners with a solid data science foundation to address challenges related to collecting, managing, processing, interrogating, analyzing and interpreting complex health and biomedical datasets using R. Participants…

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