From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Frank den Hollander is professor of mathematics at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His research focuses on probability theory, ergodic theory, statistical physics, population dynamics and complex networks. Frank has supervised 13 PhD students and 33 postdocs, has published 150 papers, and is the author of three monographs. He has…
Pierre Del Moral is Research Director at INRIA in France since 2007. He has previously worked at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); Polytechnique School in Palaiseau, Paris; Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonne of the University of Nice and Sophia-Antipolis; CNRS research fellow at University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse;…
Contributing Editor Dimitris Politis writes:
Consider the standard setup where $X_1,\ldots, X_n$ are i.i.d. from distribution $F$ with mean $\mu=EX_i$, variance $ \sigma^2=E(X_i-\mu)^2>0$, skewness $\gamma = E(X_i-\mu)^3/\sigma^3$, and kurtosis $\kappa = E(X_i-\mu)^4/\sigma^4 $ assumed finite. As usual, define the sample mean $\bar X=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n X_i$, the sample variance $\hat \sigma^2=\frac{1}{n-1}\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i…
The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University invites nominations for the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation
To promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research…