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…

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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…

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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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