Radu’s Rides
Radu V. Craiu writes another “Radu’s Ride”:  After more than twenty years of looking at the faces of puzzled students, I sometimes wonder where have these (many!) undergraduates ended up working, and whether they’re still confused about statistics. This is a more serious thought than you’d think, because we wrap…

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Contributing Editor Radu V. Craiu would like to express his gratitude: It should be obvious by now that some debts can never be repaid. Sometimes the attempt comes too late, or the gift is forgotten, but usually unpayable debts are usually too big to be matched. As you probably do…

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Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some concerns about the impact of the pandemic on young researchers:  By the time we start to grasp what it means to be young, the youth itself is gone. Whether it drowns in too much truth or too many compromises matters less than the realization…

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Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some advice that would have come in handy as a new researcher: Once upon a time we were young and insolent (some of you still are). It was a time of questioning the authority of the discipline’s stars and the norms they had created, while…

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Contributing Editor Radu Craiu offers some words of advice: Nothing is more random than love. Its asymptotic properties are far from well understood, its underlying processes are certainly not stable and their convergence at best questionable. It is no surprise then that there are important advantages in love provided by…

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