In Anirban DasGupta’s latest puzzle, we’re looking at a delicate and fascinating phenomenon pervasive in mathematics and probability: phase transition. A system’s evolution is being driven or influenced by some underlying force or parameter, and when that parameter just crosses a suitable critical boundary or threshold, the system undergoes a…
Congratulations to the two student members who sent correct answers to this puzzle: Yudong Chen (University of Cambridge, UK) and Zhen Huang (Columbia University, USA). Here’s Anirban DasGupta’s solution:
Using the notation of the problem, the recorded values $Y_1, Y_2, \cdots $ are iid with
$E(Y_i) = \sum_{i =…
A new issue of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré has been published.
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https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_55_3/aihp_55_3.pdf
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A new issue of Bernoulli has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_25_4b/bej_25_4b.pdf
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A new issue of Bernoulli has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_25_4a/bej_25_4a.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/
For more information on journals published or supported by the Institute…