XL Files
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
As might have been anticipated (jinxed?) by my thesis title, “Towards complete results for some incomplete problems,” self-pity for being incomplete has never left me. This is as true now as it was back when I accidentally reduced my almost complete thesis to merely its…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
BFF again? Yes, and this time it is for Best Friends Forever, not another Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist workshop – for that you need to wait until BFF6. [For BFF# history, see https://imstat.org/2017/05/xl-files-bayesian-fiducial-and-frequentist-bff4ever/.] But what on Earth is BGF? Best Goal Forever (FIFA time)? Best…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
My sabbatical orientation at Lugano (see the last XL-Files) boosted my over-confidence into double digits. Anyone who asked about my sabbatical plan would get an ambitious answer: that I would complete 14 articles during my sabbatical year. The year is now (at the time of writing)…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng has attended some great meetings, with exotic acronyms, over the summer. He writes:
No, these are not Chinglish or Pinyin. If you haven’t heard of ISIPTA-ECSQARU, then you are in the good company of 95–99% of statisticians and probabilists. I certainly hadn’t, until BFF4 (https://imstat.org/2017/05/xl-files-bayesian-fiducial-and-frequentist-bff4ever/…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng (who is also the new President-Elect) writes about two of the IMS special invited lectures he was inspired by at the Joint Statistical Meetings:
JSM has been a magnet for me since 1989—only once I had to depart on Tuesday due to a scheduling conflict. But…