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 =…

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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 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…

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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_25_4b/bej_25_4b.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…

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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_25_4a/bej_25_4a.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…

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Sixty science, engineering and education organizations have asked U.S. agencies to balance national security concerns with impacts to scientific enterprise. Click here to read the letter.…

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