Instrumental variables (IV) is one of most important and widespread research designs in economics and statistics, as it can identify causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. Over the past 30 years the science of IV has advanced considerably, in part through the contributions of Nobel Laureates Joshua Angrist,…

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Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College, London, continues his Hand Writing column:  The phrase Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, is becoming ubiquitous. AI is said to hold the promise of revolutionising the human condition in innumerable ways, from taking over boring and dangerous tasks, through improving medical treatments and…

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As we announced in the April/May 2021 issue, the 2021 International Prize in Statistics was awarded to US biostatistician Nan Laird, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in recognition of her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis…

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Each issue of the IMS Bulletin is available in PDF format, as well as selected articles that you can read on this website. From this page you can download each issue of Volume 50 (2021) as it is published. < Previous Volume (2020) | Next Volume (2022) > | Return …

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Teaching Guide The first time you teach, it is an ordeal by fire. For most conscientious people, it eats all their time and leaves them emotionally exhausted. But with experience, ability improves. Eventually, it can become a very satisfying facet of the profession. Useful references on teaching include Mosteller (1980)…

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