John Eltinge and Jamie Nunnelly have been presented the 2015 Distinguished Service Awards from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). Nell Sedransk, Acting Director of NISS, announced the awards on August 10, 2015 at the NISS/SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences... more
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The following was written by NISS/Duke postdoc Mauricio Sadinle.
Statisticians from around the world gathered under the enticing draw of the Brazilian culture during the 60th World Statistics Congress (WSC) in Rio de Janeiro.
Held July 26-31 of this year, the WSC is organized biannually by... more
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As part of the 25th anniversary celebration at the NISS-SAMSI reception, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) initiated a new award to recognize the extraordinary achievements of some of its former postdocs. NISS started mentoring postdoctoral fellows and associates in 1993. Since... more
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Seattle, Washington, August 11, 2015: Mary Batcher, chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS),announces that Dr. Stephen E. Fienberg has received the 2015 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research. The announcement was made by Dr. Nell... more
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Gabriel Huerta, Professor and Graduate Chair for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico, recently joined the NISS Board of Trustees. Gabriel sat down with us to tell us about his background.
Gabriel was born and raised in the thriving metropolis of... more
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Former NISS postdoc Hang Kim, who recently accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, received the Korean Statistical Society's Career Development Award. The award was presented during the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Seattle, Washington,.
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Welcome to the debut of NISS' new blog! We think this new feature will be a new and exciting way to start a conversation with you. It will have first-hand accounts from some of the workshops, profiles of people in the statistics field and highlights from some of our events
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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), a non-profit institution that conducts statistical science research, announced that Gabriel Huerta and Ray Bain have been selected to serve on the organization's Board of Trustees. The new Board members will begin their terms July 1, 2015 and... more
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Former NISS Board of Trustee member Janet Norwood passed away March 27. She was 91. Norwood led the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1979 - 1991 and was a trailblazer for many female statisticians. Read about her amazing career in the New York Times obituary.Norwood served on the NISS Board of... more
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NISS Board member, Karen Kafadar, who is one of the SAMSI program leaders for the Forensics program next year, and professor of statistics at the University of Virginia, along Anne-Marie Mazza, National Academy of Sciences, wrote an op-ed piece in Live Science. The focus of the piece was talking... more