Archive for Ontario
BFF⁷ postponed
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bayesian foundations, BFF Statistics Conference, Canada, fiducial inference, Fields Institute, frequentist inference, Ontario, Philosophy of Science, Toronto on March 31, 2020 by xi'an
Colin Blyth (1922-2019)
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags bagpipes, C.R. Rao, caligraphy, Canada, Colin Blyth, decision theory, discussion paper, Erich Lehmann, IMS Bulletin, JASA, La Trobe University, Lucien Le Cam, Melbourne, obituary, Ontario, Pitman nearness, Simpson's paradox, transitivity on March 19, 2020 by xi'an
While reading the IMS Bulletin (of March 2020), I found out that Canadian statistician Colin Blyth had died last summer. While we had never met in person, I remember his very distinctive and elegant handwriting in a few letters he sent me, including the above I have kept (along with an handwritten letter from Lucien Le Cam!). It contains suggestions about revising our Is Pitman nearness a reasonable criterion?, written with Gene Hwang and William Strawderman and which took three years to publish as it was deemed somewhat controversial. It actually appeared in JASA with discussions from Malay Ghosh, John Keating and Pranab K Sen, Shyamal Das Peddada, C. R. Rao, George Casella and Martin T. Wells, and Colin R. Blyth (with a much stronger wording than in the above letter!, like “What can be said but “It isn’t I, it’s you that are crazy?”). While I had used some of his admissibility results, including the admissibility of the Normal sample average in dimension one, e.g. in my book, I had not realised at the time that Blyth was (a) the first student of Erich Lehmann (b) the originator of [the name] Simpson’s paradox, (c) the scribe for Lehmann’s notes that would eventually lead to Testing Statistical Hypotheses and Theory of Point Estimation, later revised with George Casella. And (d) a keen bagpipe player and scholar.
snapshot from Toronto [guest picture]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags architecture, Canada, Ontario, Robert St, Toronto on July 10, 2016 by xi'an
Riesling icewine
Posted in Kids, pictures, Wines with tags Canada, Canadian wines, icewine, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Peller Estates, Riesling on April 20, 2016 by xi'an
Philosophenweg (im Toronto)
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Heidelberg, Kyoto, Ontario, Philosophenweg, Philosopher's walk, street lamp, Toronto, University of Toronto on November 2, 2013 by xi'an
Apart from walking the philosopher’s way (or path) in Toronto, after Heidelberg and Kyoto, I had a very enjoyable time (if not weather) for my very first time visit to the University of Toronto, from discussions with several friends of old, to a well-attended seminar, to a grilled octopus lunch in an faculty club and a (French) dinner au Paradis, to seeing a variety of costumes parading the streets for Halloween, with different varieties at six p.m. and two a.m., and to a discovery run in the early and windy Friday morning in the streets of Toronto.
