Meeting Report: STAT-HAWKERS at the JSM-2013, Montreal, Canada

In this foreword, we attempt to recall some memories annotated with appropriate photographs from the booth STAT-HAWKERS at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM)-2013 held in Montreal, Canada during August 3–8, 2013. There were three main advertising posters: one for the book, “Thinking Statistically: Elephants Go to School”; second for the monograph, “Advanced Sampling Theory with Applications: How Michael Selected Amy”, and the third for the journal, “Model Assisted Statistics and Applications: An International Journal.” The booth was decorated with LED-light strings, and laser-lights falling on the three main posters. In Fig. 1, Sarjinder is fixing an elephant train on a track which was used to advertise the book, “Thinking Statistically: Elephants Go to School”. A flashing yellow elephant running on a table was also used for advertising the same book. There was also a little singing toy-doll who did a wonderful job to attract the conference attendees to the booth (Fig. 2).