Student Puzzle Corner
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 …
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 …
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, …
Congratulations to Mirza Uzair Baig at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, who wrote an excellent solution to the problem.
Note that the statistic Tn may be represented as
Denote the empirical CDF of by …
Deadline: September 7, 2018
Here’s Anirban DasGupta’s latest puzzle, probability this time:
This problem is a comparatively simple one. You can get a reasonable idea of the answers to the questions that we pose by large simulations, but you cannot get the algebraic answers that we are asking for. Here…