News
December 15, 2020
David Madigan writes:
The Association of Computing Machinery and the IMS have formed a joint venture to bring together researchers and practitioners to address foundational data science challenges in prediction, inference, fairness, ethics and the future of data science. Following the successful Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science…
Nike Sun, associate professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded the 2020 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, awarded every other year by the Bernoulli Society. The prize is awarded to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability, and who is at the beginning…
Inaugural COPSS–NISS Webinar on the Statistics of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials “standing-room only”
Glenn Johnson from NISS reports: How many people are interested in understanding and interpreting findings of the early results of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trials? Lots! How many people can you get into a Zoom webinar? More than you…
The XL-Files
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
On November 6, 2020, I woke up to a flood (for a statistician) of tweets about my 2018 article, “Statistical Paradises and Paradoxes in Big Data (I): Law of Large Populations, Big Data Paradox, and the 2016 US Presidential Election”. A kind soul had offered…
Student Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
Our respondent Raimundo Julian Saona Urmeneta, who is a PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria, has done a lovely and complete job of solving the previous puzzle. Congratulations to Raimundo. We are publishing his answer [below] as…