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September 30, 2019
Peter Hall Prize nominations
The IMS Peter Gavin Hall Early-Career Prize recognizes early-career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed. Nominees for the inaugural 2020 prize should have received their doctoral degrees in 2012–2019. The IMS gives the award committee latitude to consider nominees with extenuating circumstances that…
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Annals of Applied Probability
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In Anirban DasGupta’s latest puzzle, we’re looking at a delicate and fascinating phenomenon pervasive in mathematics and probability: phase transition. A system’s evolution is being driven or influenced by some underlying force or parameter, and when that parameter just crosses a suitable critical boundary or threshold, the system undergoes a…
Congratulations to the two student members who sent correct answers to this puzzle: Yudong Chen (University of Cambridge, UK) and Zhen Huang (Columbia University, USA). Here’s Anirban DasGupta’s solution:
Using the notation of the problem, the recorded values $Y_1, Y_2, \cdots $ are iid with
$E(Y_i) = \sum_{i =…
September 25, 2019
A new issue of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_55_3/aihp_55_3.pdf
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https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/
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