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April 1, 2022
Dylan Small received his PhD in Statistics in 2002 from Stanford University with Tze Leung Lai as his thesis advisor. Dylan is the Universal Furniture Professor of Statistics and Data Science in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the chair of the Department of Statistics…
Rungang Han is currently a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University, advised by Professor David Dunson and Professor Anru Zhang. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD in Statistics in 2021 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervision of Professor Anru Zhang. He received…
Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta returns to consideration of statistical problems in this issue. The problem falls in the class of irregular problems. He says, “Certainly all of you have seen inference problems about uniform distributions with one or more unknown endpoints. That is one of the simplest irregular inference …
Sir David Roxbee Cox died suddenly at his home in Oxford on January 18, 2022, leaving Joyce, his patient and supportive wife of almost 75 years, and their four children. David was so engaged and energetic in research that his death came as a shock.
David was born on July…
Michael Barrett Woodroofe, IMS Fellow and former Leonard J. Savage Collegiate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, passed away on February 22, 2022 at the age of 81.
Michael was born on March 17, 1940 in Corvallis, Oregon, and grew up in the small town of Athena in…