IMS Bulletin
Yes, you read that right. Contributing editor Vlada Limic continues her series of columns on workSHOPS, WORKshops and a neologism: learnering…
Workshops (by which I mean workshops) will be organized as long as there is available funding for them. The reader is welcome to ask if this is a…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Some events in life repeat, although not necessarily in an i.i.d.* fashion. For some unlucky or lucky ones (see my last XL-Files) this has been a season of repeated storms and flu. A trip to London had to be canceled because the flu bug, with her…
The Student Puzzle Corner contains one or two problems in statistics or probability. Sometimes, solving the problems may require a literature search. Current student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions electronically (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”).
The deadline has now been extended to June 18,…
Anirban DasGupta writes:
Well done to Yixin Wang (Columbia University) and Vivian Meng (McGill University), who provided correct solutions to the various parts of the problem.
Yixin Wang
Vivian Meng
The problem asked was the following: suppose $X_1, X_2, \cdots , X_n$ are iid $N(\mu , \sigma ^2)$ where the…
17th IMS New Researchers Conference
August 6–8, 2015
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The 17th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the IMS, and jointly sponsored this year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google, and other federal agencies and industry sponsors. The…