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October 6, 2016
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…
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IMS Special Lectures in 2017
The IMS sponsors several series of Special Invited Lectures, which are given by distinguished scientists at regular IMS meetings. The IMS Committee on Special Lectures chooses the recipients. Special Lectures are distinct from ordinary invited papers, which are chosen by the Program Committees for each…