Carnegie Mellon University
May 24, 2017

Fienberg is Editor of New Annual Reviews Journal

Stephen Fienberg is the editor of the "Annual Review of Statistics and its Application," one of the newest journals published by Annual Reviews. In the first volume, he wrote an essay titled "What is Statistics?" He traces statistics as a discipline from the mid 17th century through the present and evaluates the future of the field and the role of applications in it. Read his essay and the entire first volume of the new journal at http://www.annualreviews.org/toc/statistics/1/1.