Statistics student Jiang Jia-Jian’s final year project has been accepted for publication in the October 2015 issue of Statistics & Probability Letters, one of the top international journals in statistics and probability.His research paper, titled “An Interesting Property of the Arcsine Distribution and Its Applications”, shows that important properties of a discrete approximation to the ar...

Pennsylvania State University professor on big data

Prof Martin Lee from Stanford University and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre spoke of “Aimigo: an optimisation algorithm that changes the game” at UIC on 25 November.Prof Lee said non-linear programming leverages constrained optimisation algorithms to address the challenges of inverse system design, data mining and machine learning. As data sets grow and systems become ever more comp...

The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) presented the 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award to Prof Fang Kaitai of DST's Statistics Programme at its general member meeting in Boston in August.President of the ICSA Prof Ying Lu (Stanford University) says the bestowal of this award upon Prof Fang is in recognition of his “broad and significant contributions in statistical theor...