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Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: It might well be an exercise in frivolity, but I see a common thread between Sherlock Holmes and the bootstrap. It’s randomized inference. A standard example in a statistics class is that if a coin is tossed 20 times, the 5% UMP unbiased test concludes…

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  “Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland   GEORGE EDWARD PELHAM BOX, professor emeritus of Statistics and of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the age of 93. George founded the Department of Statistics…

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Bill Studden in 1970. Photo: Purdue University Department of Statistics William J. Studden passed away suddenly on March 19th, 2013. Bill was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 30, 1935. Professor Studden received his B.Sc. from McMaster University (1958) and his PhD in Statistics in 1962 from Stanford University…

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The IMS would like to thank the following individuals for contributing to the IMS. You can contribute to the IMS at http://imstat.org/membership/gift.htm Blackwell Lecture Fund David Aldous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Kenneth and Selma Arrow, David Banks, Alicia and Robert Bell, Peter and Nancy Bickel, Estate of David Blackwell, Karl and Aimee…

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Peter Guttorp is Professor of Statistics, Quantitative Ecology & Resource Management, and Urban Design & Planning at the University of Washington, Professor at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. He is an invited member of

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