The story behind the Dantzig Selector paper and an Anagram

Terry Tao provides a nice overview of the story behind the ideas and results of “The Dantzig selector: Statistical estimation when p is much larger than n" a paper he published with Emmanuel Candés. Publishing the paper was one thing, but as he explains:

After accepting our paper, the Annals of Statistics took the (somewhat uncommon) step of soliciting responses to the paper from various experts in the field, and then soliciting a rejoinder to these responses from Emmanuel and I. Recently, the Annals posted these responses and rejoinder on the arXiv.

I'd say, this is indeed rather unusual even in the Applied Sciences. In my view, this move only attests to importance of the work. The blog entry is here.


On a lighter note, Laurent Duval proposes a witty anagram for Compressive sensing: Processing Vein Mess.