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December 15, 2019
We pose a classic problem, variously known as the taxicab problem or the German tank problem (named after its historical application, by Allied forces in World War II, to the estimation of the monthly rate of German tank production from very few data).
We have a finite population $\mathcal{X}$ with…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes on the previous problem, which was about phase transitions:
If the common probability that each observer tells the truth on any given instance is $p$, and if there are $m$ such observers, and if there are $n$ options (colors) to choose from, then by…
December 2, 2019
A new issue of Annals of Probability has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_47_6/aop_47_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/
For more information on journals published or supported by…
A new issue of Annals of Applied Statistics has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aoas/aoas_13_4/aoas_13_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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November 23, 2019
A new issue of Bernoulli has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_26_1/bej_26_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/
For more information on journals published or supported by the Institute…