Opinion
Ruobin Gong, Rutgers University, writes:
Suppose that you and a group of friends play the following game. Everybody guesses an integer between 1 and 100. You win by getting closest to half of the median sample of guesses, and the winner takes home the dollar amount s/he had guessed. What…
Radu V. Craiu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He writes:
This past summer I was asked in a Q&A session what I consider to be a “sexy” topic in statistics [1]. Not being able to speak about sexiness in front…
Radu V. Craiu is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He writes:
These are interesting times for statistical science departments throughout the world. The demand for a statistician’s expertise is at an all-time high across a multitude of sectors: tech, finance, health…
We in IMS must build the foundations of this emerging field
Data science is at a crossroads. Will it become a fundamentally applied discipline, a collection of heuristics without any coherent mathematical underpinning? Or will a rigorous foundation lead to practical new tools and algorithms with provable properties? IMS members…
Jan Swart is a research fellow at the Institute of Information Theory and Automatization, in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. He writes to share his experiences of co-organizing Learning Sessions, trialling a new format for sharing knowledge:
In four columns published in 2014 and 2015…