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Lu Zhang wins 2020 Dempster Prize

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The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2020 Dempster Prize will be awarded to Lu Zhang for her “Floodgate: inference for model-free variable importance.” Previous winners of the Dempster Prize are: Wenshuo Wang in 2019; Robin Gong in 2018...

Robin Gong Wins 2018 Dempster Prize

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The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2018 Dempster Prize will be awarded to Robin Gong. She will present her Colloquium entitled “Conditioning rules for sets of probabilities: dilation, sure loss and Simpson’s paradox” at 4.15 Monday...

2017 Dempster Prize Winners: Espen Bernton and Xinran Lin

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The Department of Statistics has awarded the 2017 Dempster Prize to Espen Bernton and Xinran Lin for their research papers. The award “supports and recognize promising graduate students within the Department of Statistics, in particular those who have...

2021 Dempster Prize awarded to Ambarish Chattopadhyay

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The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2021 Dempster Prize will be awarded to Ambarish Chattopadhyay for his paper (with Jose Zubizarreta) "On the implied weights of linear regression for causal inference". Congratulations to Ambarish! We...

NEML 2016

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New England Machine Learning Day 2016 Poster deadline is April 21.

2022-2023 Dempster Prize is Awarded to Yicong Jiang

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The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize has been awarded to Yicong Jiang for his paper co-authored with Professor Tracy Ke, "Semi-Supervised Community Detection via Structural Similarity Metrics." The Dempster...

Xiao-Li Meng is Chicago Statistician of the Year

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As part of World Statistics Day festivities, the Chicago Chapter of the ASA named Xiao-Li Meng Statistician of the Year 2015-2016 and invited him to speak at a special dinner in his honor. His lecture, entitled "Statistical Paradises and Paradoxes of Big...

Pickard Award Lecture and Reception: Nicholas Horton

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Click here to watch the 2016 Pickard Award Lecture, featuring Professor Nicholas Horton. We are pleased to announce that Professor Nicholas Horton of Amherst College has been chosen as the 2016 Pickard Lecturer. Congratulations! For those who may not know...

CompBioInfo

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Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2015

Hidden Biases

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Please join members of the Statistics, Biostatistics, and Mathematics Departments for a session led by Professor Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard (and Chair of Psychology from 2016...