From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Some events in life repeat, although not necessarily in an i.i.d.* fashion. For some unlucky or lucky ones (see my last XL-Files) this has been a season of repeated storms and flu. A trip to London had to be canceled because the flu bug, with her…
The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search. Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”).
The deadline has now been extended to June 18,…
Anirban DasGupta writes:
Well done to Yixin Wang (Columbia University) and Vivian Meng (McGill University), who provided correct solutions to the various parts of the problem.
Yixin Wang
Vivian Meng
The problem asked was the following: suppose $X_1, X_2, \cdots , X_n$ are iid $N(\mu , \sigma ^2)$ where the…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Han Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.
The IMS…
17th IMS New Researchers Conference
August 6–8, 2015
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The 17th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the IMS, and jointly sponsored this year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google, and other federal agencies and industry sponsors. The…