From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is January 25, 2019.
Anirban DasGupta says:
The previous problem on inference based on the distribution of a nonsufficient statistic required the use of …
Check the rates and add discounted joint memberships with other societies—now including the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics and the New England Statistical Society, as well as INFORMS/Applied Probability Society, International Chinese Statistical Association, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and ISI/Bernoulli Society—at:
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The International Prize in Statistics is awarded to Bradley Efron, Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, in recognition of the “bootstrap,” a method he developed in 1977 for assessing the uncertainty of scientific results that has had extraordinary and enormous impact across many scientific fields.
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Haim Bar & Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut, report:
After a six-year hiatus, this year we renewed the Distinguished Statistician Colloquium Series. With generous funding from Pfizer, the American Statistical Association, and the Department of Statistics at UConn, the 24th colloquium in the series was held on September 26–27,…
IMS Fellows Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley) and Bin Yu (UC Berkeley) are working on two of the six projects that have just received a highly selective Chan–Zuckerberg Intercampus Research Award. Only six awards were made, out of 83 applications; these projects will collectively receive $9.7 million over three years.…