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October 6, 2016
Stanford Professor Emeritus Theodore W. “Ted” Anderson, a giant in mathematical statistics and econometrics, and a “prophet” of the era of big data, died of heart failure on September 17. He was 98.
Anderson, who retired from teaching in 1988, continued his work and close association with Stanford colleagues. Until…
Professor Emanuel Parzen, a long time faculty member in the Statistics Department at Texas A&M University, and expert in signal detection theory and time series analysis, died on Saturday, February 6, 2016, in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 86.
Parzen, who was born on April 21, 1929, in New York…
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta sets this problem. Student members of the IMS are invited to submit solutions (to bulletin@imstat.org with subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). The deadline is October 23, 2016.
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It is the turn of a problem on statistics this time. This is the sixteenth problem in this problem…
Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
Well done to Promit Ghosal (pictured below), at Columbia University, who sent a careful answer to this problem.
Promit Ghosal
The problem asked was the following. Take an integrable function $f$ on the unit interval, and for $x$ in the interval $[j/2^n, (j+1)/2^n)$, define $f_n(x)$ to…
September 5, 2016
The World Congress in Probability and Statistics, which was hosted by the Fields Institute, Toronto, took place from July 11–15, 2016. There were over 350 participants. Program highlights included the IMS Wald Lectures (Sara van de Geer), Rietz Lecture (Bin Yu), Schramm Lecture (Ofer Zeitouni) and five IMS Medallion Lectures…