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February 16, 2018
Following “guest puzzler” Stanislav Volkov’s rotating wheel probability puzzle (solution below), Anirban DasGupta sets a statistics puzzle:
This is one of those quick-and-dirty methods, popularized by John Tukey, one that makes some intuitive sense, and can be very quickly implemented. This issue’s problem is about testing the equality of two…
The IMS Elections this year are for the IMS President and five places on Council. The nominees are:
For IMS President:
Susan Murphy
For IMS Council:
Vivek S. Borkar
Vanja Dukic
Christina Goldschmidt
Ruth Heller
Susan Holmes
Xihong Lin
Richard Lockhart
Gabor Lugosi
Nicolai Meinshausen
Kerrie Mengersen
You can read…
February 5, 2018
A new issue of STATISTICAL SCIENCE has been published.
You get a summary in pdf-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/sts/sts_33_1.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/
For more information on journals published or supported by the Institute…
A new issue of THE ANNALS of PROBABILITY has been published.
You get a summary in pdf-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_46_1.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
http://projecteuclid.org/ or http://www.jstor.org/
For more information on journals published or supported by…
January 30, 2018
If you are coming to the next IMS annual meeting, which takes place jointly with the 12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (July 2-6, 2018: http://ims-vilnius2018.com/), and need help with childcare costs, apply to the IMS Child Care Initiative. Priority will be given to those presenting…