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KAUST Ph.D. student wins American Statistical Association paper competition

1 min read · Thu, Sep 14 2017

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Sabrina Vettori, a Ph.D. student co-supervised by KAUST Distinguished Professor Marc Genton, who leads the Spatio-Temporal Statistics & Data Science group, and KAUST Assistant Professor Raphaël Huser, who leads the Extreme Statistics Research Group, won the 2017 Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Eligible papers focused on environmental statistics, and the four competition winners presented their papers at an ENVR-sponsored session at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), held from