Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: Well done to Lu Mao (pictured below), of the department of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who sent a carefully written solution. Lu Mao The problem was to find a minimax estimator of $m = |µ|$ under squared error loss when…

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As you may have noticed if you are a member, the IMS has reintroduced sending the printed IMS Bulletin to all members. Before now, you had to opt-in to receive the Bulletin in print. We hope you like receiving the printed version. Of course, if you prefer to keep up…

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Subramanian Panchapakesan — known as Kesan among his numerous friends and colleagues — passed away on January 28, 2016, in Chennai (formerly Madras), the city in which he was born on August 27, 1933. Kesan graduated from Vivekananda College in Chennai with a BA(Hons) degree in Mathematics in 1954 and…

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Photo by Tyson Anderson 2007 Asit Basu, who passed away October 19, 2015, was Professor of Statistics at the University of Missouri Columbia. Born 1937 in India, he received undergraduate and master’s degrees, in 1956 and 1958, from the University of Calcutta and a PhD degree in Statistics from the…

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Shahjahan Khan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, is the founding chief editor of the Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics. He was recently the speaker at a meeting in Malaysia, and reports: The University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia organised a workshop on “Evidence-Based Decision and Statistical Meta-Analysis with…

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