This short course offers instructor-led and hands-on training in basketball analytics for students, young statisticians, and sports professionals. It provides the understanding of the concepts of basketball data science, by covering basic statistics tools and advanced methods of data analysis, as discussed in the book Basketball Data Science – with…

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The short course will introduce basic and advanced concepts of statistical disclosure control, privacy and confidentiality. The topics covered include: introduction to statistical disclosure control, disclosure risk scenarios and types of disclosure risks; measuring disclosure risk for traditional outputs: microdata and tabular data; common statistical disclosure control methods and their…

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The US National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 members — 59 of whom are women, the most elected in a single year — and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them is IMS Fellow Kenneth Lange. Kenneth…

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The IMS is pleased to announce the creation of a new award and lecture, to honor Grace Wahba’s monumental contributions to statistics and science. These include her pioneering and influential work in mathematical statistics, machine learning and optimization; broad and career-long interdisciplinary collaborations that have had a significant impact…

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Leo Goodman, one of the towering figures in statistics, and particularly in its application to sociology, died on December 22, 2020, in Berkeley, California, at the age of 92. Leo was born in Brooklyn in 1928. He obtained a BA in mathematics and sociology in 1948 from Syracuse University,…

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