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February 23, 2021
A Time for Reflection and Reinvigoration
IMS President Regina Liu reports on recent developments, and outlines some exciting new initiatives:
It has been a year of stress and anxiety, with the pandemic overshadowing all aspects of our lives. We have all continued to adapt, from the initial struggles to the…
Jianqing Fan is Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Director of Committee of Statistical Studies at Princeton University, where he directs both statistics and financial econometrics labs. After receiving his PhD from…
Every three years, the IMS chooses a Le Cam Lecturer, one of our most prestigious awards. But who was Le Cam, and why was his work so important? The following is slightly condensed from the obituary written by Rudolf Beran and Grace Yang, which was published in the IMS Bulletin …
Deadline: April 25, 2021
Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta proposes a palindrome problem in the domain of probabilistic number theory. It will take careful thinking and patience to work out the more difficult parts of this problem. I try to give you hints, as you move from one part to the…
The puzzle was this maximum likelihood estimation problem in a badminton game.
Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta explains the solution:
For part (a), writing q for p2 = cp, the likelihood function is
((1 − p)p4q4)(p4q3(1 − q))((1 − q))(q3p2(1 − p))(p5q4(1 − q))
= p29(1 − p)2(1 −…