A Commentary on “The Kids Are Alright: Divide by n when estimating variance,” by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, IMS Bulletin (December 2015), Vol. 44, No. 8, Page 9 Dear Editor Professor Rosenthal’s piece is persuasive and very clearly written. I thank Professor Rosenthal for taking us back to this old concern…

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Alexander Volfovsky writes: For more than twenty years (with a gap year here and there) the IMS has been hosting the Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability immediately before the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). At each of these conferences a group of around 50 new researchers — postdocs…

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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 now April 15, 2016. — We consider a problem on Gaussian extreme values. It comes across as a difficult calculation, but when looked…

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Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: Well done to Lu Mao (pictured below), of the department of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who sent a carefully written solution. Lu Mao The problem was to find a minimax estimator of $m = |µ|$ under squared error loss when…

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As you may have noticed if you are a member, the IMS has reintroduced sending the printed IMS Bulletin to all members. Before now, you had to opt-in to receive the Bulletin in print. We hope you like receiving the printed version. Of course, if you prefer to keep up…

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