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Chan Park is a fifth-year PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, advised by Dr. Hyunseung Kang. Before joining UW–Madison, he received a BS in Statistics in 2015 from Seoul National University, Korea. His research interests include developing flexible, nonparametric methods to infer causal effects in dependent and/or clustered data…
Rong Ma is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Statistics Department at Stanford University, advised by Professor David Donoho. Prior to that, he got his PhD in Biostatistics in 2021 from the University of Pennsylvania, jointly advised by Professors T. Tony Cai and Hongzhe Li. He received a BS in…
Guest puzzler Stanislav Volkov, Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Lund University, sets a puzzle about a speeding random walk:
For n = 1, 2, … let Xn = ±n with equal probabilities and assume that Xns are independent. Define a “speeding” random walk by S0 = 0 and Sn =…
On September 21, 2021, mathematical statistics lost an emblematic figure, Constance van Eeden. Constance, an IMS (and ASA) Fellow since 1973, made an enormous contribution to statistical science as an educator and researcher, through a very active career that spanned more than half a century.
Beginnings
Constance was born in…
Kjell Doksum, IMS Fellow, died on November 20, 2021 at the age of 81. He was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Scientist in the Statistics Department at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Kjell was born in Sandefjord, Norway, and grew up in Oslo. His parents…