Stata at 20: A Personal View

Scrapie--a personal view.

Copulas: A personal view

Copula modeling has taken the world of finance and insurance, and well beyond, by storm. Why is this? In this paper I review the early start of this development, discuss some important current research, mainly from an applications point of view, and comment on potential future developments. An alternative title of the paper would be “Demystifying the copula craze”. The paper also contains what ...

A personal view

In the 20 years from its ®rst issue, BIT has been active in an area of technology with fast and thorough changes. After scanning through 20 volumes, I am surprised to detect that the published scope of BIT has remained almost unchanged, and many statements in the ®rst editorial could be published today without replacing a single word. BIT did not give up its basic principles published in the ®r...

Committees--a personal view.

TUG’95 at St. Petersburg Beach — a Personal View

Saturday July 22nd. Brussels airport, hot, not enough head wind, and our DC-10 just stood there on the runway, waiting for that little breeze that would allow us to go up into the sky (it seemed the plane was too heavy to have enough velocity at the end of the runway to safely take off). We saw all those other planes fly off and our pilot must have thought, after half an hour or so, that what t...