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February 19, 2016
IMS Fellow Emanuel Parzen, a respected figure in signal detection theory and time series analysis who, with Murray Rosenblatt, introduced the use of kernel density estimation (the so-called “Parzen window”), died February 6, 2016, in Boca Raton, Florida. He was 86.
Manny Parzen, who was born on April 21, 1929,…
The 2016 ENAR Spring Meeting will be held in Austin, Texas, from March 6–9. The meeting brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, connected through a common interest in Biometry.
Featuring the 2016 ENAR Presidential Invited Speaker, Xihong Lin (Harvard University), whose lecture will be on Biostatistics,…
A Commentary on “The Kids Are Alright: Divide by n when estimating variance,” by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, IMS Bulletin (December 2015), Vol. 44, No. 8, Page 9
Dear Editor
Professor Rosenthal’s piece is persuasive and very clearly written. I thank Professor Rosenthal for taking us back to this old concern…
Alexander Volfovsky writes:
For more than twenty years (with a gap year here and there) the IMS has been hosting the Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability immediately before the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). At each of these conferences a group of around 50 new researchers — postdocs…
February 18, 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 now April 15, 2016.
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We consider a problem on Gaussian extreme values. It comes across as a difficult calculation, but when looked…