Student Puzzle Corner
Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The names of student members who submit correct solutions to either or both of these puzzles, and the answer, will be published in the issue following the deadline. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban DasGupta. …
Here’s a reminder of the two puzzles posed by Anirban DasGupta in the December Bulletin. There’s still time to send in your solution, to one or both: the deadline is January 25, 2023.…
Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). Deadline: January 25, 2023. The names of student members who submit correct solutions to either or both of these puzzles, and the answer, will be published in the issue following the deadline. The Puzzle …
Deadline: November 1, 2022. Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The names of student members who submit correct solutions to either or both of these puzzles, and the answer, will be published in the issue following the deadline. The Puzzle …
Deadline September 15, 2022.
Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta poses what he calls, “an exercise in merriment, on basic statistical inference”:
Your friend is thinking of a two-digit positive integer $N$ consisting of two distinct nonzero digits. The friend won’t tell you what $N$ is, but will give truthful answers…