Digging for data from the medieval ages occupies James Walker, John Lee, and Stephen Broadberry in the August issue of Significance. They use ancient statistical documents, including arguably the most famous of them all—Domesday Book, published in 1086—to painstakingly reconstruct the medieval economy.
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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.
People News for December 2021
See what ASA members have been up to lately in the December 2021 People News update.
Data Science Competition Attracts Talent from UGA
The first data science competition hosted by the department of statistics at the University of Georgia attracted 96 students, with 10 undergraduate teams and 16 graduate teams. Most teams had students from multiple disciplines, making the competition truly interdisciplinary.
Significance Launches Data Economy Series with April Issue
The April issue of Significancebegins a new four-part series that tells the story of the “data economy,” starting with the birth of customer insight.
Meet Spiro Stefanou, Head of the Economic Research Service
Spiro Stefanou has been the administrator of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture since August 2020. He provides leadership and guidance for the agency research, analytical, and technical operations.
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.
Kimiko Bowman
Kimiko Bowman is known as a statistician that helped develop a formula for approximating the distribution of maximum likelihood estimators.
Francis Amasa Walker
A Pioneer with Everlasting Energy “General Walker considered each and every one of them [his public offices] a trust to be administered with integrity and with courage. He received degrees from more institutions of learning than any living American.” – Carroll D. Wright, 1897 Francis Amasa Walker was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 2, […]
Harold Hotelling
Hotelling was considered a pioneer in the field of mathematical statistics and economics in the 20th century, with contributions to the theory of demand and utility,