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February 17, 2025
Victor M. Panaretos is Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the EPFL. He received his PhD in 2007 from UC Berkeley, advised by David Brillinger. Upon graduation he was appointed Assistant Professor at EPFL’s Mathematics Institute, where he rose the ranks to Full Professor, also serving as Institute Director. He has…
February 16, 2025
Puzzle editor Anirban DasGupta returns with these puzzles in our contest model. Each correct answer receives 3 points, each incorrect answer receives -2 points, and each item left unanswered receives -1 point. You can answer just one of the two problems, 55.1 and 55.2, but it will be fantastic if…
Joseph George Caldwell died on April 16, 2024. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on March 23, 1942, and moved with his family to the United States in January, 1953. His family lived in Lakeland, Florida, and Newark, Delaware, before settling in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in June of 1956.…
John H. Wolfe, an IMS Life Member, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2024, in San Diego, California, after a battle with metastatic cancer. He was 90 years of age. He is best known in statistics as the inventor of model-based clustering in the 1960s, a field that has seen…
In the January/February 2025 issue [link is to PDF], Xiao-Li Meng explained how his acquisition of a wine club’s inventory led to a statistical taste-test by the Happy Team. Continuing the three-part series, he explains the particular links between this wine, some chocolate and quite a lot of …