Anirban DasGupta writes: Well done to Yixin Wang (Columbia University) and Vivian Meng (McGill University), who provided correct solutions to the various parts of the problem. Yixin Wang Vivian Meng The problem asked was the following: suppose $X_1, X_2, \cdots , X_n$ are iid $N(\mu , \sigma ^2)$ where the…

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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Han Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. The IMS…

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17th IMS New Researchers Conference August 6–8, 2015 University of Washington, Seattle, WA The 17th IMS New Researchers Conference is an annual meeting organized under the auspices of the IMS, and jointly sponsored this year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google, and other federal agencies and industry sponsors. The…

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Professor Bimal K. Roy, Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, was given the Padma Shri award, one of the highest civic honors in India, by the central government of India on January 26, 2015. Professor Roy was honored for his versatile and innovative contributions to numerous areas of theoretical computer…

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