Donald Fraser sadly passed away in December at the age of 95.
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A Statistical Star from the East Shines in the West
Bimal Sinha of the University of Maryland Baltimore County was recently honored with an endowed chair of statistics named after him.
Foundations of Data Science Conference Scheduled for October
The conference will address foundational data science challenges in prediction, inference, fairness, ethics, and the future of data science.
A Note on Statistics Surveys
Statistics Surveys is a free online journal for expository papers about specific statistical methodology. It is an outlet for papers that are deep and magisterial reviews of subfields within statistics, such as bootstrap methodology for finite populations, spatial prediction with Big Data, or causal inference.
And the Award Goes To …
Leading statistical groups create prestigious platform to recognize far-reaching contributions—The International Prize in Statistics.
Writing Workshop Planned for Junior Researchers
The National Institute of Statistical Science, American Statistical Association, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics will hold a writing workshop for junior researchers August 9 and 12 at JSM in Seattle.