Jessica Pierce. Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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...

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 444, $57.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-375-8.

hospital she had booked into. She was shaved, enema-ed, and wheeled into the labour ward, a huge room with beds of screaming women, separated by curtains and with students checking them. After the birth she was wheeled into a corridor for a day or two until a bed in a ward became available. She only had contact with her baby at feeding times, she was in bed for nine days, home on the tenth, ‘wi...

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.

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