Student Puzzle Corner
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 April 15, 2016.
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We consider a problem on Gaussian extreme values. It comes across as a difficult calculation, but when looked…
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 January 15, 2016.
It is the turn of a statistics problem this time. Abraham Wald literally opened up a major new framework for…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta writes the solution to the previous puzzle.
The exact problem was this:
Fix . Give examples of two absolutely continuous distributions with densities and such that for all , and one of the two distributions is infinitely divisible…
The deadline for the Student Puzzle printed in the last issue is October 20, 2015, so there is still time to enter! The puzzle appears at https://imstat.org/2015/08/student-puzzle-corner-11/. We await your submission!…