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July 15, 2019
Yee Whye Teh is a Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford and a Research Scientist at DeepMind. He was programme co-chair for AISTATS 2010 and ICML 2017. His research interests span across machine learning and Bayesian statistics, including probabilistic methods, Bayesian nonparametrics and…
Hao Helen Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona, as well as a faculty member of Statistics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP). Helen Zhang obtained a PhD in Statistics from University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2002. She was assistant and associate professor of…
Xiao-Li Meng writes his final President’s Column, before handing on the gavel to the next IMS President, Susan Murphy, at JSM…
It has been so long since I was quarantined by the joy of learning as a student, a form of joy whose purity many of us only recognize decades…
Here’s Anirban DasGupta’s latest puzzle. He says:
All of us were told as undergraduates, or perhaps Masters students, that an essential property of a point estimator is that it be consistent. And indeed, we usually or even always select estimators that are consistent. We are going to ask a provocative…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes the solution to puzzle 24:
Congratulations to the four student members who sent in correct answers—some more complete than others. They are Prakash Chakraborty, Purdue University; Sihan Huang, Columbia University; Kumar Somnath, The Ohio State University; and Andrew Thomas, Purdue University.
Now for the…
