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December 15, 2024
The 2025 Executive Officers of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society (ENAR) are Paul S. Albert (President), Bhramar Mukherjee (President-Elect), Reneé H. Moore (Past President), Alisa J. Stephens-Shields (Secretary), and Qi Long (Treasurer).
More about ENAR: https://www.enar.org/about/index.cfm…
Radu Craiu shares his thoughts about time, and about timing:
I like mechanical watches because they combine precise engineering—the movement is built under tremendous constraints that have to do with the minimalist space it is allowed to occupy and its efficiency under minimal friction (it’s not lost on me that…
Shili Lin, Ohio State University, is the chair of the CIMEP working group (the mentoring and engagement program run by IMS and the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, CANSSI). She reports:
The inaugural joint IMS–CANSSI mentoring and networking event took place on Monday, August 5, at JSM 2024 in Portland, Oregon.…
Ying Jin is currently a Wojcicki Troper Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Data Science Initiative, working with Professors José Zubizarreta and Marinka Zitnik at Harvard Medical School. Her research centers around conformal prediction, distribution-free inference, generalizability, distribution shifts, selective inference, and their applications in biomedical discovery and human decisions. In Fall…
This time we have a guest puzzle editor, Stanislav Volkov, who is Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. (Anirban DasGupta will return with the next puzzles).
Here is Stanislav’s puzzle:
Puzzle 54
Let Tn=Y1+Y2+…+Yn be a “random walk” in the sense that…