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- I gave a
discussion
on "Practical Problems in Sports Analytics", an invited
session at the
2017 Joint Statistical Meetings.
The discussion includes various statistical summaries about the JQAS
review process during my term as editor.
- I was interviewed on
Wharton Moneyball on June 21,
originally aired on Channel 111 on SiriusXM, Business Radio
Powered by The Wharton School.
The
audio for the interview is now available.
- 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.
- I gave the
Julia Wells Bower Lecture at Connecticut College
on April 18, 2017.
- I gave a talk on March 15, 2017,
on the effects of time-varying medication adherence
on longitudinally measured health outcomes at the
International Biometrics Society (ENAR) 2017 Spring Meeting in Washington, DC.
- I was quoted in the Feb 24, 2017 WIRED article
The Math Behind Trump's Deportation Plan Makes No Sense.
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I gave a talk about chess rating systesm at the
Wellesley
College Mathematics Department Colloquium
on Tuesday, February 21.
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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.
- I was a speaker at
SportCon - Sport Analytics Conference
on January 10, 2017.
The conference took place at the University of St. Thomas,
Minneapolis.
A video
of the talk is now online.
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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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The Imposteriors,
the award-winning dance band of high-achieving academic statisticians,
performed recently at the 2017 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference in Chapel
Hill, NC, and at the 2017 ENAR (International Biometric Society) in
Washington, DC.
Some pictures
are posted on the band's web site.
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