Student Puzzle Corner
Here’s Anirban DasGupta’s latest puzzle. He says: All of us were told as undergraduates, or perhaps Masters students, that an essential property of a point estimator is that it be consistent. And indeed, we usually or even always select estimators that are consistent. We are going to ask a provocative…

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Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes the solution to puzzle 24: Congratulations to the four student members who sent in correct answers—some more complete than others. They are Prakash Chakraborty, Purdue University; Sihan Huang, Columbia University; Kumar Somnath, The Ohio State University; and Andrew Thomas, Purdue University. Now for the…

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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 June 25, 2019. Here’s Anirban’s latest puzzle. He says: To encourage many students to send an answer, we’re posing a very simple problem

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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 25, 2019. Anirban DasGupta says: The previous problem on inference based on the distribution of a nonsufficient statistic required the use of

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The Student Puzzle Corner contains problems in statistics or probability. Solving them may require a literature search. Student IMS members are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is November 15, 2018. The names of student members who submit correct solutions, and the answer,

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