Sadly, Colin Mallows and Richard Olshen passed away recently.
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Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Comes with $1M Award, Recognition
The King Baudouin Foundation—a large public utility foundation in Belgium—recently established the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, which comes with a $1 million award. Nominations will be accepted until March 31.
Three Interrelated Papers Spotlighted
Highlights from volume 3, issue 3 of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, which features three interrelated papers.

