<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>De: </b>"Kimberly Sellers" <Kimberly.Sellers@georgetown.edu><br><b>Para: </b>"Prof. Célestin C. Kokonendji" <celestin.kokonendji@univ-fcomte.fr>, "Felix Famoye" <famoy1kf@cmich.edu>, "Carl Lee" <lee1c@cmich.edu>, "Pere Puig" <ppuig@mat.uab.cat>, "Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio" <clarice.demetrio@usp.br>, "Darcy Steeg Morris" <dls333@cornell.edu>, "Kim Weems" <ksweems@nccu.edu>, "Sunil Dhar" <sunil.k.dhar@njit.edu>, "N Balakrishnan" <Bala@mcmaster.ca>, "John Hinde" <john.hinde@nuigalway.ie><br><b>Enviadas: </b>Quinta-feira, 16 de Março de 2017 10:18:02<br><b>Assunto: </b>Joe Hilbe<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>It is with great sadness that I relay the news (if you've not heard already) that Joseph (Joe) Hilbe, author of the books <i>Negative Binomial Regression</i> and <i>Modeling Count Data</i>, passed away on March 12, 2017. His family has established a memorial page for him on Facebook:<br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015614298079" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015614298079</a><br><br>and have tentatively scheduled a memorial gathering for Sunday, April 23, 2017 in the Phoenix Metro area. The family invites everyone to send email or video regards for the service. They will also be starting a foundation in his name to help further study/research in statistics and astrostatistics. <br><br></div>I will relay any further information as I hear it. Meanwhile, please help to spread the news to others in the community, and I hope you are each well.<br><br></div>Sincerely,<br></div>Kim<br><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Kimberly F. Sellers, PhD</div><div>Associate Professor of Statistics</div><div>Department of Mathematics and Statistics</div><div>Georgetown University</div><div>306 St. Mary's Hall</div><div>Washington, DC 20057</div><div>Phone: 202-687-8829</div><div>Fax: 202-687-6067</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:kfs7@georgetown.edu" target="_blank">kfs7@georgetown.edu</a></div><div>Web: <a href="http://faculty.georgetown.edu/kfs7" target="_blank">faculty.georgetown.edu/kfs7</a></div></div></div></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </blockquote><br></div></body></html>