From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Layla Parast has learned a hard lesson:
Summer is my favorite time of year. To me, summer means watermelon, pools, and the smell of sunscreen and mosquito repellent. My favorite, well-known example explaining how correlation is not causation involves summer: the numbers show that ice cream sales and shark attacks…
Donald M. (Mike) Titterington sadly passed away last April after suffering for many years from Parkinson’s disease; he had spent his entire academic career at the University of Glasgow until his retirement in 2011. Mike was born in Marple, England, but moved at an early age to Stirling, Scotland and…
Tze Leung Lai, the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, passed away on May 21, 2023, at the age of 77. He made far-reaching contributions to sequential statistical analysis and a wide range of applications in the biomedical sciences, engineering and finance. Tze received many honors for…
Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy, known to generations of mathematicians and probabilists simply as KRP, passed away on June 14 in New Delhi; he was 86. Professor Parthasarathy made numerous extremely deep contributions over a stunningly wide spectrum of mathematics: probability, quantum probability, graph theory, linear algebra, statistics and other mathematical domains.…
Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta poses another two problems, and says, “Our statistics problem this time is on universally consistent estimation of the regression coefficients for not necessarily Gaussian errors, and the probability problem is on probabilistic graph theory. The statistics problem is a practically important problem that will make …