In Memoriam: Raymond Duff

In memoriam. Raymond Millard Cable 1909-1995.

The duff, no duff casualty.

A patient who presented with "hyperventilation syndrome" was initially mis-treated as severe crush injury, illustrating the need for thorough assessment of all casualties whilst on exercise prior to arranging casualty treatment and evacuation.

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Dealing with Duff Data

The classical problem of statistical outliers does not really exist in the Bayesian context because its detection is indicative of an inadequate analysis model. Nevertheless, we may sometimes want to deal with data where quirky things occasionally happen. We describe two elementary probability formulations for handling this case and show, with the aid of a simple example, how they lead to robus...

Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...