Message from the Department Chair: Hira L. Koul

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News

Large Sample Inference For Long Memory Processes - Book published: written by Liudas Giraitis, Hira L Koul & Donatas Surgailis.

The paper of Professors Lim and Dass are published in Technometrics. - The paper of Professors Lim and Dass on "Assessing Fingerprint Individuality Using EPIC: A Case Study in the Analysis of Spatially Dependent Marked Processes", published in Technometrics, 53 (2011), no. 2, 112–124, has been chosen as the recipient of the ASA's Outstanding Statistical Application award for this year. Since nominees can come from any journal or monograph, the award is quite an honor.

Professor Tapabrata Maiti - has been elected to be a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2012.

The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) - The International Year of Statistics ("Statistics2013") is a worldwide celebration and recognition of the contributions of statistical science. Through the combined energies of organizations worldwide, Statistics2013 will promote the importance of Statistics to the broader scientific community, business and government data users, the media, policy makers, employers, students, and the general public.

Lijian Yang has been appointed as an Editor of Sankhya, Ser B. - , one of the prestigious journal of statistics.

Book Review: Stochastic Differential Equations in Infinite Dimensions - Book written by Gawarecki, Leszek and Mandrekar, Vidyadhar

Stochastic Models for Fractional Calculus - New book by Mark Meerschaert and Alla Sikorskii

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