Ernst receives Tweedie New Researcher Award
Award widely considered highest honor for excellence in research for early-career statistician.
Statistician, longtime faculty member James Thompson dies
Retired in 2016 after 46 years as a member of Rice's faculty, died Dec. 4 at age 79.
Ernst named `Distinguished Teacher'
Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award is the oldest award given to faculty members at Rice.
Making sense of the 'nonsense correlation'
Ernst mathematically confirms Yule’s empirical ‘nonsense correlation’ phenomenon.