From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015 IMS Council elections.
The President-Elect is Jon Wellner. The new Council members are, in alphabetical order: Andreas Buja, Gerda Claeskens, Nancy Heckman, Kavita Ramanan and Ming Yuan.
The new Council members and President-Elect will serve IMS for three years, starting…
Featuring news about Sharon-Lise Normand, Gunnar Kulldorff, Ramanathan Gnanadesikan, Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Xuming He, Hao Zhang
The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2015 Rao Prize Conference on May 14, 2015 to honor three prize recipients: the 2015 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize Recipient Sir David R. Cox, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College at University of Oxford; the 2015…
In this issue, we look at the consequences of having only incomplete data. For example, suppose a random variable $X$ has a normal distribution with mean $\mu $ and variance $\sigma ^2$, and both parameters need to be estimated. With usual data, which we call complete data, namely iid copies…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
Well done to Yixin Wang of Columbia University, who sent correct answers to all three parts (although fuller answers are encouraged).
The problem asked was to characterize the set of recurrence points of three $d$-dimensional random walks with step distributions $F$:
(a) $d = 1,…
