From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Xiao-Li Meng writes his final President’s Column, before handing on the gavel to the next IMS President, Susan Murphy, at JSM…
It has been so long since I was quarantined by the joy of learning as a student, a form of joy whose purity many of us only recognize decades…
Here’s Anirban DasGupta’s latest puzzle. He says:
All of us were told as undergraduates, or perhaps Masters students, that an essential property of a point estimator is that it be consistent. And indeed, we usually or even always select estimators that are consistent. We are going to ask a provocative…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes the solution to puzzle 24:
Congratulations to the four student members who sent in correct answers—some more complete than others. They are Prakash Chakraborty, Purdue University; Sihan Huang, Columbia University; Kumar Somnath, The Ohio State University; and Andrew Thomas, Purdue University.
Now for the…
Paul Shaman wrote these remarks, edited and expanded from his comments at the dinner on November 30th, during the posthumous tribute to Larry Brown held November 30–December 1, 2018, at University of Pennsylvania.
The Penn Department of Statistics is now in its 88th year. Over this period of time…
We mark the passing of Dr. Joel Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, on December 5, 2018, at his home in Westlake Village, California. He was 72 years old.
Joel was born on March 16, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York. His family said, about Joel’s early attraction to…