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 =…

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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/…

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A new issue of Bernoulli has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_27_1/bej_27_1.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/…

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A new issue of Statistical Science has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/sts/sts_35_4/sts_35_4.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/…

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Xin Bing, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University; Ilmun Kim, Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (previously a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon); and Yichen Zhang, Krannert School of…

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