From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Seattle is known for Starbucks and software… and now also for statisticians, as over 6,800 people attended the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings, held at the Washington State Convention Center from August 8–13, 2015.
IMS invited program co-chairs Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster, said of their involvement, “The experience as IMS…
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The September 2015 issue of the IMS Bulletin has photos of some of the highlights of the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle. Check it out!…
Infinite divisibility of Euclidean random variables and vectors has been a core theme in the theory of probability for at least sixty years. The question asked is when can a random variable be decomposed into small independent components. Precisely, a random variable (vector) $X$ is called infinitely divisible if for…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
The problem asked was to settle the possibility of consistent estimation with incomplete data in three examples, and to provide a concrete one when consistent estimation is possible.
Intuitively, in case (a), you can only infer about $|\mu |$, but not the sign of $\mu…