Xingche Guo, Trevor Harris, and Wenrui Li will start as assistant professors of statistics this fall.
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Dipak Dey Nominated Candidate for President of American Statistical Association
The Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Statistics has been nominated to serve as president of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for the 2025 term.
Paper of the Month: October 2022
Ghosh, M., Sinha, B. K. and Mukhopadhyay, N. (1976). Multivariate sequential point estimation. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 6: 281-294.
Statistics Colloquium: Sakshi Arya, Pennsylvania State University
“Epsilon-Greedy strategy for Nonparametric Bandits,” presented by Sakshi Arya, Eberly Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
Statistics Colloquium: Xianyang Zhang, Texas A&M University
“Powerful Large-scale Inference in Omics Association Studies,” Presented by Xianyang Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University
Statistics Colloquium: Judy Huixia Wang, George Washington University
“Copula-Based Approaches for Analyzing Non-gaussian Spatial Data,” presented by Judy Huixia Wang, Chair and Professor, Department of Statistics, Washington University
Statistics Colloquium: Reuben Retnam, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
“A ‘Divide-and-Conquer’ AECM Algorithm for Large non-Gaussian Longitudinal Data with Irregular Follow-Ups, presented by Reuben Retnam, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Statistics Colloquium: Scott Bruce, Texas A&M University
“Interpretable Classification of Categorical Time Series Using the Spectral Envelope and Optimal Scalings,” presented by Scott Bruce, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University
Paper of the Month: September 2022
Belkin, M., Hsu, D., Ma, S., & Mandal, S. (2019). Reconciling modern machine-learning practice and the classical bias–variance trade-off. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(32), 15849-15854.
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Kosuke Imai, Harvard University
“Experimental Evaluation of Algorithm-Assisted Human Decision-Making: Application to Pretrial Public Safety Assessment,” presented by Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and of Statistics, Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Science.