From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Jiashun Jin is Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2003. He was a faculty member at Purdue University from 2003 to 2007, after which he joined the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he remains a faculty…
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.…
