Anirban’s Angle: Top Inequalities for a PhD student
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: It is the mark of an instructed mind, said Aristotle, not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. Delicate and [ More.. ]
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: Understanding Citation Indices
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta explores how citation indices are created: Some love them, some hate them, but citation indices are heartily gobbled up by administrators in tenure and promotion decisions. [ More.. ]
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: Right or Wrong, Our Confidence Intervals
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: A wonderful thing about tenure is that once I had it, I never had to control my irresistible urge to waste my time on [ More.. ]
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: Mendeléeff, Bode, and Precognition
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes: Perhaps it says something about human psychology that if a theoretical model for some problem makes predictions — better yet, sensational or bizarre predictions — which later come out [ More.. ]
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: Berkeley & Indian Statistics
Anirban DasGupta reminisces on the fond relationships that have developed over the years between statisticians from India and UC Berkeley.
Read More...Anirban’s Angle: A New Core?
Anirban DasGupta writes: PhD students in statistics departments across the world are asked to take a course on the core theory of inference, the so-called “qualifier theory course”. I took [ More.. ]
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