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November 16, 2015
Bulletin Editor Anirban DasGupta writes the solution to the previous puzzle.
The exact problem was this:
Fix $\epsilon 0$. Give examples of two absolutely continuous distributions with densities $f$ and $g$ such that $|f(x)-g(x)| \leq \epsilon $ for all $x$, and one of the two distributions is infinitely divisible…
Over 50 organizations, including the IMS, marked World Statistics Day (20th of October) with a statement urging that global development must no longer be hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live.
In September, at the United Nations General…
October 20, 2015
The special World Statistics Day edition of News from the World of Statistics is available at http://www.worldofstatistics.org/files/2015/10/World-Statistics-Day-October-20-2015.pdf
Past newsletters can be reviewed at http://www.worldofstatistics.org/news-of-the-world-of-statistics-archive/.
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October 19, 2015
Over 50 organizations are marking World Statistics Day (20th of October) with a statement urging that global development must no longer be hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live.
See the full statement on the RSS web site …
October 2, 2015
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) conferred their 2015 awards at JSM in Seattle in August. John D. Storey, Princeton University’s William R. Harman ’63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics and professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, received the 2015 COPSS Presidents’ Award, which recognizes…