IMS Bulletin
Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Liverpool, is joined by George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, for the first column in a series on the impact of AI on academia. They write:
In a previous Takis Tackles article ([4] in the December 2021 issue) one of us [TK] claimed…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Here is a moral test (especially for statisticians). Which of the following acronyms baffles you the most: ANOVA, ADSN, ASC, ANU, ABS, or AITA?
Regardless of your answer (or questioning—a moral test??), the eight A’s in the above acronyms will forever remind me of my recent eight-day…
Anirban DasGupta says, “We are going to continue with our contest model introduced in the previous puzzle. Each correct answer receives 3 points, each incorrect answer receives -2 points, and each item left unanswered receives -1 point. The top three scorers will be recognized. You can answer just one of …
Alan Geoffrey Hawkes died on 9 November 2023. He was Emeritus Professor at the Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance at the School of Management of Swansea University in Wales.
Swansea University has a webpage with a short, but comprehensive, biography: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.g.hawkes/. There we learn that he joined Swansea in…
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend Johannes Ledolter who was a Professor of Statistics and Business at the University of Iowa and Emeritus Professor at the University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria. Johannes passed away peacefully at his home in Iowa…