Book Review: Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015)

The University of Chicago Record

11 Report of the Student Ombudsperson for Winter and Spring Quarters 1995—Andrew Varcoe 14 The 439th Convocation Address: “The Use and Misuse of Personal Information in a Technological Age” —Dr. Kenneth S. Polonsky Remarks—Joseph Neubauer Bachelor’s Degree Candidates’ Remarks— Rebecca Lee Feldman, Andrew James Spellman, Andrea Robin Wood Honorary Degrees Quantrell Awards Faculty Awards for Exce...

Who nurtured Nature? Making Nature; the History of a Scientific Journal, Melinda Baldwin (Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL; 2015) ISBN: 9780226261454

It was not long after I joined Nature as Biology Editor in 1974 that I was invited — or rather summoned — to meet Max Perutz at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He was Chairman of a luminous board that included the likes of Francis Crick, John Kendrew and Fred Sanger, all Nobel laureates. After the briefest of pleasantries, Perutz came straight to the...

The University of Chicago Department of Statistics

It is well known that the number of modes of a kernel density estimator is monotone nonincreasing in the bandwidth if the kernel is a Gaussian density. There is numerical evidence of nonmonotonicity in the case of some non-Gaussian kernels, but little additional information is available. The present paper provides theoretical and numerical descriptions of the extent to which the number of modes...

The University of Chicago Department of Statistics

The year 2000 U. S. Census has been inundated by political and legal controversy. This talk will survey the current plans for Census 2000 from my perspective as a statistician. From this perspective the viability and desirability of these plans will be discussed. Some relevant evidence in this regard will be cited from the 1990 census and from the 1998 Dress Rehearsal census.

Chicago-Kent Law Review