Statistics News
02-01-2022We are delighted to announce that Associate Professor Anindya Bhadra is a winner of the Young Statistical Scientist Award (YSSA) in the category “Statistical Applications,” given by the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) for the year 2021.
William S. Cleveland Receives Honorary Doctorate from Hasselt University
12-21-2021William S. Cleveland, Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, received an Honorary Doctorate from Hasselt University, Belgium.
PhD Student Ksheera Sagar Wins 2022 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
12-21-2021Sagar wins award for his paper “Precision matrix estimation under the horseshoe-like prior–penalty dual,” co-authored with collaborators Sayantan Banerjee, Jyotishka Datta, and Anindya Bhadra.
2021 Purdue Krannert-Statistics Machine Learning and Causal Inference Boot Camp
07-30-2021On July 13 - 15, 2021, the Department of Statistics and the Krannert School of Management co-hosted the inaugural Purdue Krannert-Statistics Machine Learning and Causal Inference Boot Camp. This event was co-organized by Dr. Mohammad Rahman, Dr. Vinayak Rao, and Dr. Arman Sabbaghi, with 30 in-person attendees and over 300 online attendees registered.
Fall 2021 Distinguished Theme Seminar Series
07-27-2021The theme of this year's Distinguished Theme Seminar Series is Causal Inference. We are excited about this year's schedule and we hope you'll join us!
07-15-2021
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