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Richard Davis delivered his IMS Presidential Address at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics
Presidential Address: Are We Meeting the Challenge?

Richard Davis delivered his IMS Presidential Address at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics, at the Fields Institute in Toronto on July 11, 2016....

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Obituary: Theodore W. Anderson 1918–2016

Stanford Professor Emeritus Theodore W. “Ted” Anderson, a giant in mathematical statistics and econometrics, and a “prophet” of the era of big data, died of heart failure on September 17....

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Our first conference on causal inference will focus on ways to estimate a number of different types of treatment effects both when standard assumptions such as ignorability and SUTVA hold, as well as cases where these assumptions fail....

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Student Puzzle Corner 16 – IMS Bulletin

It is the turn of a problem on statistics this time. This is the sixteenth problem in the series, and we must have had a good time, because we have already come to the end of three years since the series started....

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Lecturer in Discipline Positions Starting Spring 2017

Columbia University

Department of Statistics

Lecturer in Discipline Positions Starting Spring 2017

The Department of Statistics invites applications for positions at the rank of Lecturer in Discipline to begin January 1, 2017....

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NBER/NSF Time Series Conference

Website: http://mimas.iserp.columbia.edu/

Session 1: Sept. 16, Friday, 11am-12:30pm.

Chair: Mike West (Duke University)

On consistency of the bootstrap testing for a parameter on the boundary of the parameter space

Anders Rahbek (University of Copenhagen), G....

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