From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
It’s that time of year again to consider who to nominate for the IMS awards.
The Carver Medal was created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. It is open to any IMS member who has not previously been elected President.…
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Blackwell Lecture Fund
The Blackwell Lecture Fund is used to…
Dimitris Politis is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California in San Diego. He is one of the IMS Bulletin’s Contributing Editors, and a former Editor (January 2011–December 2013). Here, he writes about his most recent pastime, Model-Free Prediction:
1. Estimation
Parametric models served as…
Practically all of the biographical information contained herein comes from Ester Samuel-Cahn’s “A Conversation with Esther Seiden.” Statistical Science, 1992, 7, pp. 339–357.
On March 3, 1908, Esther Seiden was born in a small town in West Galicia, Poland—at that time ruled by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In her long…
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Professor of Statistics, University of Toronto, writes:
It happens to the instructor of every university-level introductory statistics class. You define the mean m, and the variance v. You explain how to estimate the mean from an i.i.d. sample, via $\bar{x} = \frac{1}{n} \sum{x_i}$. Then you have to…