From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Contributing Editor Vlada Limic writes the last column in her series about workshops and workshops, and reports on the results of her “learnering” survey, which she announced in the April 2015 issue:
I wonder how would you react to the following announcement: “The survey on learnering ran…
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 January 15, 2016.
It is the turn of a statistics problem this time. Abraham Wald literally opened up a major new framework for…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta writes the solution to the previous puzzle.
The exact problem was this:
Fix $\epsilon 0$. Give examples of two absolutely continuous distributions with densities $f$ and $g$ such that $|f(x)-g(x)| \leq \epsilon $ for all $x$, and one of the two distributions is infinitely divisible…
Over 50 organizations, including the IMS, marked World Statistics Day (20th of October) with a statement urging that global development must no longer be hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live.
In September, at the United Nations General…
The special World Statistics Day edition of News from the World of Statistics is available at http://www.worldofstatistics.org/files/2015/10/World-Statistics-Day-October-20-2015.pdf
Past newsletters can be reviewed at http://www.worldofstatistics.org/news-of-the-world-of-statistics-archive/.
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