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June 27, 2018
Prodyot Kumar Bhattacharya passed away March 9, 2018, at his home in Davis, California. He was professor emeritus at the University of California at Davis and contributed to the field of statistics during a career that spanned more than 50 years. PK, as he was called by many colleagues and…

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Dr. George Edward Cave of West New York, son of the late George Thomas Cave and the late Leatha Willa Cave, née Shelton, passed away at age 71 on April 18, 2018 in Washington DC. While attending Memorial High School, George was President of the General Student Organization, a National…

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Congratulations to Mirza Uzair Baig at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, who wrote an excellent solution to the problem. Note that the statistic Tn may be represented as \[ T_n = I_{Y_{(1)} < X_{(1)}, Y_{(n)} < X_{(n)}}\, \bigg [\sum_{i = 1}^n I_{Y_i < X_{(1)}} + \sum_{i = 1}^n I_{X_i > Y_{(n)}}\bigg ]\] \[+ \,I_{X_{(1)} < Y_{(1)}, X_{(n)} < Y_{(n)}}\, \bigg [\sum_{ i = 1}^n I_{X_i < Y_{(1)}} + \sum_{i = 1}^n I_{Y_i > X_{(n)}}\bigg ].\] Denote the empirical CDF of $X_1, \cdots , X_n$ by $F_n$…

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Deadline: September 7, 2018 Here’s Anirban DasGupta’s latest puzzle, probability this time: This problem is a comparatively simple one. You can get a reasonable idea of the answers to the questions that we pose by large simulations, but you cannot get the algebraic answers that we are asking for. Here…

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MATRIX is an international research institute that hosts research programs where world-leading researchers in the mathematical sciences come together to collaborate in an intellectual stimulating environment. MATRIX is situated in the heart of the picturesque goldfields district of Victoria, Australia. MATRIX is offering fully-funded 1–4 week programs (catering and accommodation)…

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