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July 17, 2013
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Giving a banquet speech after a whole conference day is never easy—few people long for yet another speech. My recent speech also faced an extra challenge. The speech was scheduled after as many karaoke performances as the number of Chinese dishes, except that the former…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes:
It might well be an exercise in frivolity, but I see a common thread between Sherlock Holmes and the bootstrap. It’s randomized inference. A standard example in a statistics class is that if a coin is tossed 20 times, the 5% UMP unbiased test concludes…
July 16, 2013
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
GEORGE EDWARD PELHAM BOX, professor emeritus of Statistics and of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the age of 93. George founded the Department of Statistics…
Bill Studden in 1970. Photo: Purdue University Department of Statistics
William J. Studden passed away suddenly on March 19th, 2013.
Bill was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 30, 1935. Professor Studden received his B.Sc. from McMaster University (1958) and his PhD in Statistics in 1962 from Stanford University…
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