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- I gave a talk at the
2018
Joint Statistical Meetings
on August 1, 2018, in Vancouver, BC, on modeling authorship of
Lennon-McCartney songs.
The American Statistical Association
issued a
press release about the work, and various articles have appeared
in the news media.
A 6-minute segment
was recorded for the CBC show
The
Early Edition that appeared on August 1, and
a 6.5-minute segment
appeared on August 9 on WGBH radio in Boston.
And if you are not sick of hearing my voice, there is also my
interview
on Science Friday on August 10,
and the
Stats+Stories
podcast from October 18.
The technical paper describing this work is basically finished,
but we plan to incorporate some changes based on feedback from a
colleague before making it publicly available.
The computation is taking a lot longer than we anticipated!
- I gave a talk at the
Cascadia Symposium on Statistics
in Sports on August 3, 2018, in Vancouver, BC, on a model
for paired comparisons that acknowledges that stronger competitors
tie more frequently than weaker ones, and that stronger competitors
may make better use of a home-field advantage.
I was also part of a panel discussion on getting your work
recognized in sports analytics.
- I have been elected to the American Statistical Association's Board
of Directors for a 3-year term, starting 2019, as Council of Sections
representative.
- I gave an invited talk at the
Fields Sports Analytics Workshop,
at the
Fields Institute in Toronto, ON, on May 24-25, 2018.
- The paper
A comparison
of rating systems for competitive women's beach volleyball
as been accepted for publication in a special sports statistics issue
of the
Italian Journal of Applied Statistics.
-
The Chapman & Hall/CRC book
Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports,
edited by me, Jim Albert, Tim Swartz and Ruud Koning,
has now been published.
I wrote a chapter on
Estimating Team Strength in the NFL
with Hal Stern.
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I am one of the developers of the new
Universal Rating System
for chess.
The project was sponsored by Grand Chess Tour, the Kasparov Chess
Foundation, and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
- I am the founding head of the
Sports Analytics Laboratory at Harvard University.
The
web site
is now active.
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