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February 16, 2015
The problem, stated here, was the following:
what is an exact expression for the singularity probability $f(p)$ of a $3\times 3$ random matrix with iid Rademacher entries having the distribution $P(1) = p, P(-1) = 1-p$, to find its average over $p$, and to show that it is minimized…
February 15, 2015
The biennial 13th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-13) was held at the IPB International Convention Centre in Bogor, Indonesia during 18-21 December 2014. The conference was jointly organised by Bogor Agricultural University (BAU) and Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS). The theme of the conference was ‘Statistics…
A career in research requires, above all else, enough motivation—and a real passion for the subject—argues Terry Speed.
February 9, 2015
The 17th IMS New Researchers Conference will take place at the University of Washington, Seattle, August 6-8, 2015 (just before JSM). The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in probability and statistics. If you received a PhD in or after 2010, or expect…
December 16, 2014
Peter Bickel received a Doctor honoris causa from ETH Zurich on November 22, 2014. The translation (from German) of the laudatio reads “…for fundamental contributions in semiparametric, robust and high-dimensional statistics, and for seminal influence in mathematical statistics and its applications.” (The full text, in German, is at https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/news/eth-tag/Dokumente/2014/eth-tag-2014-laudatio-bickel.pdf)
Peter…