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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.
R. A. Fisher
Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890–1962) was a British statistician and geneticist who is often considered one of the founders of modern statistics.
Sharon Lohr Shares Unique Path to Writing About Crime
Sharon Lohr first encountered statistics during her senior year and credits her undergraduate adviser, Thomas Jager, for steering her toward it in graduate school. In 2014, she became the first woman to give the Deming Lecture. Today, she is a freelance statistical consultant and writer, following a 25-year career in academia.
Computer Experiments Motivate New Approach to Bayesian Computation
Here are the highlights of the August issue of Technometrics.