Editors’ Note: A Tribute to Daniel S. Hamermesh

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Daniel J. Sargent, Ph.D.

Dan Sargent was 46 years old when he died unexpectedly on September 22, 2016, during a brief hospitalization at theMayo Clinic. He grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, where his family runs a successful landscaping business, before completing his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the nearby University of Minnesota. While an undergraduate there, he caught the attention of Don Berry, the Bayesian...

A NOTE ON THE STATIONARY BOOTSTRAP ’ S VARIANCE By Daniel

Because the stationary bootstrap resamples data blocks of random length, this method has been thought to have the largest asymptotic variance among block bootstraps Lahiri [Ann. Statist. 27 (1999) 386–404]. It is shown here that the variance of the stationary bootstrap surprisingly matches that of a block bootstrap based on nonrandom, nonoverlapping blocks. This argument translates the variance...

editors note

editor’s note geopersia is published biannually by the college of science, university of tehran, iran. the college of science published “journal of science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. it was then decided that the college’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of geopersia was launched. geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original res...

A Note From the Editors