Professor Kun Chen was elected as a 2022 Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a designation that has been a significant honor for nearly 100 years.
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Statistics Colloquium: Chuan-Fa Tang, University of Texas at Dallas
“Taylor’s Law for Semivariance and Higher Moments of Heavy-Tailed Distributions,” presented by Chuan-Fa Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
Irene Soteriou ’23 (CLAS) Named Truman Scholar
A double major in statistics and cognitive science, Soteriou is the 10th UConn student to have earned the prestigious honor.
Statistics Colloquium: Scott Linderman, Stanford University
“Point Process Models for Sequence Detection in Neural Spike Trains,” presented by Scott Linderman, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Jun Yan Named Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Profesor Yan was recognized for demonstrating distinction in research in statistics or probability or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field.
Bin Zou Receives 2022 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award
Professor Zou was recognized for excellence in research and creativity for early-career faculty members.
Statistics Colloquium: Lan Liu, University of Minnesota
“The Inner Partial Least Square – A Probe Into the “Necessary” Dimension Reduction,” presented by Lan Liu, Associate Professor, Director of the Consulting Center, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Undergraduates Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to the UConn statistics and mathematics-statistics majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa for 2022.
Paper of the Month: April 2022
Liu, Y., & Xie, J. (2020). Cauchy Combination Test: A Powerful Test With Analytic p-Value Calculation Under Arbitrary Dependency Structures Journal of the American Statistical Association, 115(529), 393-402.
Statistics Colloquium: Taylor Arnold, University of Richmond
“Data Science for Image Analysis,” presented by Taylor Arnold, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Richmond