Student Puzzle Corner
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is September 4, 2017.
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After a relaxed rendezvous with effulgent nothingness, we should now seriously get back to the problem corner. It is…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is April 20, 2017.
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After a long gap, we now resume the problem corner, and it is the turn of a problem on…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is October 23, 2016.
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It is the turn of a problem on statistics this time. This is the sixteenth problem in this problem…
Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
Well done to Promit Ghosal (pictured below), at Columbia University, who sent a careful answer to this problem.
Promit Ghosal
The problem asked was the following. Take an integrable function $f$ on the unit interval, and for $x$ in the interval $[j/2^n, (j+1)/2^n)$, define $f_n(x)$ to…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is now September 8, 2016.
It is the turn of a problem on probability this time. We will consider a problem that looks…