From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Contributing 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 April 20, 2017. — After a long gap, we now resume the problem corner, and it is the turn of a problem on…

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Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes: “How could that happen?” was perhaps the question of the year for 2016. Other than a small percentage of perceptive minds, which I hope include disproportionately more of my fellow statisticians, the rest of the human population seems to still be coping with the aftermath…

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Mortimer Spiegelman Award The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) invites nominations for the 2017 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, which honors a statistician below the age of 40 in the calendar year of the award who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public…

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A new issue of BERNOULLI has been published.You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_23_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/For more information on journals published or supported by the Institute of Mathematical…

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A new issue of ANNALES DE L’INSTITUT HENRI POINCARÉ – PROBABILITÉS ET STATISTIQUES has been published.You get a summary in pdf-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_53_1.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/For more information on journals…

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