Layla Parast has learned a hard lesson: Summer is my favorite time of year. To me, summer means watermelon, pools, and the smell of sunscreen and mosquito repellent. My favorite, well-known example explaining how correlation is not causation involves summer: the numbers show that ice cream sales and shark attacks…

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We are pleased to welcome Layla Parast—Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, mother, and CrossFit competitor—to the team of IMS Bulletin contributing editors, with her new column, Lines from Layla.   At my oral exam during my PhD, one…

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