News
December 15, 2020
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…
Deadline: February 1, 2021
Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta sets a problem on maximum likelihood estimation in a sports scenario.
Between two badminton players $A$ and $B$, player $B$ has a probability $p_1 = p$ of returning a serve or a shot from $A$, and $A$ has a probability $p2 =…
December 13, 2020
A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_48_6/aos_48_6.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…