Contributing Editor David Hand writes:
Reading my co-columnist Xiao-Li Meng’s column The XL-Files in the January/February 2015 issue made me realise I hadn’t written a column about The Improbability Principle, my book which appeared early in 2014. Xiao-Li wrote, “Winning the lottery or being struck by lightning are both…
Guest columnist Dominique Picard considers the statistical legacy of wavelets.
Once upon a time (around the nineties), wavelet analysis emerged as a major tool in various disciplines, including several branches of pure and applied mathematics and statistics. The primary intent at this time was to produce and exploit the properties…
Eugene Dynkin, the A.R. Bullis Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Cornell University, died November 14, 2014, in Ithaca, NY. He was 90. He is survived by his wife, Irene; a daughter, Olga Barel; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Evgenii Borisovich Dynkin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1924.…
Henry Earl Teicher, husband, father, friend and colleague, passed away on November 12, 2014 at the age of 92.
Henry Teicher was born July 9, 1922, in Jersey City, NJ. Henry received his PhD in statistics from Columbia University in 1950, and served in professorial positions at Purdue until 1967.…