XL Files
The styles Xiao-Li Meng writes about here are the styles of the discipline of statistics: not just the traditional “modeling and fitting” but also “statistics as decision-making” and “statistics as consensus,” as Christopher Phillips recently outlined…
“The Theory That Would Not Die,” Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s 2011 chronicle of Bayes’…
In the last two issues of the IMS Bulletin, Xiao-Li Meng has taken us on an epicurean journey of wine, chocolate and whiskies, extracting a few teaching points along the way. To round off the three-part series, he takes us on an alphabetical exploration of the world of wine……
In the January/February 2025 issue [link is to PDF], Xiao-Li Meng explained how his acquisition of a wine club’s inventory led to a statistical taste-test by the Happy Team. Continuing the three-part series, he explains the particular links between this wine, some chocolate and quite a lot of …
As you may recall from the previous issue, Xiao-Li Meng promised to reveal how a statistician like him found a path to partnering with leaders in the wine industry. All will be revealed in this and the following two installments of the XL-Files. Here, we are reprinting—with permission and…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Winston Churchill is known for his many memorable quotes, and for wine lovers, none more savory than his toast to Champagne: “In victory, I deserve it; in defeat, I need it.” As a staunch believer in Churchill’s chicken soup for life, I found it impossible to not…