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¡Vuelo a Sevilla otra vez!
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags 2025 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science, Andalucía, conference, Croatia, Greece, ICSDS 2025, IMS, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Jerez, mathematical statistics, Mediterranean Sea, Sevilla, Spain, Turkey on December 14, 2025 by xi'an
shoot the messenger & cook the books
Posted in Books, Statistics with tags Agent Orange, America, Argentina, ASA, autoritarian, Bureau of Labor Statistics, conspiracy theories, Council of the European Union, democracy index, Donald Trump, EU, Europe, Greece, ISI, official statistics, Poland, populism, Statistics Poland, The New York Times, theocracy, US elections 2024, US politics on August 2, 2025 by xi'an
Heads of Official Statistics Bureaux has been subjected to suspicion and sometimes prosecution from their governments in the recent past, the most notable cases being Agentina with Graciela Bevacqua and Greece (with Andreas Georgiou), while the ASA and the ISI expressed deep concern this year about the dismissal of Dominik Rozkrut as President of Statistics Poland. Now this undemocratic tide against the independence of official statistics has reached America, with Agent Orange firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he did not like the (un)employment report!! Rather than reflecting on the massive impact on the economy of his own, chaotic, economic decisions and counter-decisions.
“What do we do when the president of the United States behaves [like a 5-year-old]? On Friday, President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics — the nation’s workaday scorekeeper of employment, wages and productivity. Why? Because the data didn’t make Mr. Trump look good. The statistics were inconvenient. So the president didn’t just challenge the findings; he fired the statistician. That’s not governing. That’s board flipping (…) One danger certainly is that a future Bureau of Labor Statistics head might feel political pressure to fudge a jobs report. The deeper risk is cynicism, the quiet corrosion of faith in institutions. If we can’t believe the numbers, how do we believe anything?” f, Aug. 3
O’Bayes 2025 της Αθήνας
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Athens, Athens University of Economics and Business, BayesComp 2025, foundations of objective Bayesian methodology, Greece, National Technical University of Athens, O'Bayes 2025, registration, registration fees, Singapore, University of Warwick on January 18, 2025 by xi'an
A reminder that the 2025 Objective Bayes (O’Bayes) Methodology Conference will take place in Athens, Greece, from June 8 to 12, 2025, which I will alas miss (for attending BayesComp the week after). Registration for the O’Bayes25 meeting is now open, with an increase on the 470€ fees in March. Speakers and discussants are available on the website and poster can be proposed till 28 February 28. The tutorials on Sunday will be given by Guido Consonni, Rianna de Heide, and Mark Stell (University of Warwick).
O’Bayes 2025 [με αθηναϊκό άρωμα]
Posted in Statistics with tags Athens, Athens University of Economics and Business, BayesComp 2025, conference, foundations of objective Bayesian methodology, Greece, ISBA, ISBA conference, National Technical University of Athens, National University Singapore, O'Bayes, O'Bayes 2022, O'Bayes 2025, objective Bayes, Parthenon, Renzo Piano, scientific committee, Singapore, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, tutorial on November 6, 2024 by xi'an
The next O’Bayes conference will take place in Athens, 8-12 June 2025. Registration is open, as well as a call for posters. As in (all?) earlier episodes of these Objective Bayes methodology conferences, speakers and discussants are invited by the scientific committee. And the first afternoon consists of tutorials on different aspects of Objective Bayes methodology. The conference will take place in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre. (Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend O’Bayes 2025, once again, due to my attending BayesComp 2025 the week after.)
shame!
Posted in Kids with tags Efsyn, EU, European Union, Frontex, Greece, Kalamata, Mediterranean Sea, migrations, shame on June 17, 2023 by xi'an
