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October 1, 2022
Armchair expert Anirban DasGupta has been thinking about political predictions in the US midterm elections. He writes:
With the midterm elections in the US just around the corner and the next general election not too far away, political analysts and also common people are thinking about which factors influence the…
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Presidents’ Award
The Presidents’ Award is presented annually to a young member of one of the participating societies…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu (University of Toronto) writes:
This Summer’s spirit was airborne. And by that I don’t mean that it went up in smoke, European heatwaves notwithstanding, but rather that it was a summer of freedom—an imponderable feeling that is, alas, most relished when it is seriously threatened. I…
Hongyu Zhao received his BS in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1990 and PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He is currently the Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, and Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Professor of Genetics at Yale University.
Hongyu’s research interests…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng has been in a case of repeated mistaken identity—a result, perhaps, of people seeing what they hope to see. He cautions against doing the same with your data…
If I am fortunate to have you as a frequent reader of the XL-Files, you might recall…