The Prize Committee of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis is accepting submissions for the 2021 Savage Award until May 31. A monetary prize of $750 will be awarded.
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Jordan Urges Both Computational, Inferential Thinking in Data Science
As part of the NSF Data Science Seminar Series, Michael I. Jordan—chair of the University of California, Berkeley Department of Statistics—made his case for why one should think of data science as the combination of computational and inferential thinking.
Featured Papers Cover Application, Methods, Theory
Motivations of the papers in the October issue run the gamut from adjusting to constant change, to finessing seemingly impossible enumerations, to finding new forms of simplification, to discovering hidden associations, to understanding underlying theory.