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December 15, 2019
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
As might have been anticipated (jinxed?) by my thesis title, “Towards complete results for some incomplete problems,” self-pity for being incomplete has never left me. This is as true now as it was back when I accidentally reduced my almost complete thesis to merely its…
Preview of a Special IMS Lecture
Ashwin Pananjady is a final year PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Martin Wainwright and Thomas Courtade. His research interests are broadly in statistics, optimization and information theory. Specific topics of …
Preview of a Special IMS Lecture
Didong Li is a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University, supervised by David B. Dunson and Sayan Mukherjee. His research focuses on bridging between statistics and differential geometry to develop fundamentally new algorithms, statistical methods and theory. In particular, …
To promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even-
numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research contributions include innovations that have had impact on practice and whose PhD degree is at least 25 years old.
The…
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…