IMS Bulletin
Rousseeuw Prize organizers, Mia Hubert and Stefan Van Aelst, write:
Statistics is a cornerstone of science, health, industry, economics, government and more, and benefits society as a whole. The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awards pioneering work in statistical methodology. The prize recognizes a statistical innovation, that is, an outstanding contribution…
One of the final items on every IMS President’s to-do list is to deliver the Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting. Tony Cai did this in August 2025, at the JSM in Nashville, and this article is adapted from his IMS Presidential Address—with assistance, as you might expect…
Anirban DasGupta is offering another three problems in the December 2025 IMS Bulletin issue. He says, “You can send a solution to one, two, or ideally all three! We hope you will enjoy thinking about these problems.”
Puzzle 59.1
Suppose $X, Y, Z$ are iid standard normal. Find, without doing…
Ruobin Gong writes in praise of Bin Yu and Rebecca Barter’s Veridical Data Science, which she used to modernize a course:
As any seasoned instructor could attest, there is a certain kind of comfort to teaching a course on repeat. We know the lay of the land like the…
Daniela Witten is frustrated with (some of) her students “outsourcing their brains to LLMs”:
For decades, the university classroom was as if frozen in time: blackboards became whiteboards and transparencies transformed to Beamer*, but that was about it. But early 2020 brought with it a series of…