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What's New?
(older news items here)
- I have been honored as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
The American Statistical Association
has issued a
press release announcing the 2014 honorees.
Boston University also
announced the news.
- I have been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
for the 2015-2017 term.
The American Statistical Association
has issued a
press release announcing the appointment.
- I will be presenting
Towards a Rating System for Multi-Competitor Games and Sports
on August 6, 2014
at the 2014 Joint Statistical
Meetings in Boston, MA.
- I will be presenting
Recruiting Analytics - Lessons Learned from Rating Competitors in
Games and Sports on September 18, 2014 at the
2014 Fall ERE Recruiting
Conference & Expo in Chicago, IL.
- The manuscript
"False discovery rate control is a recommended alternative to
Bonferroni-type adjustments in health studies"
by me, Sowmya Rao and Mark Schultz, has been accepted for
publication in the
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
- The facebook page for the
Imposteriors,
the "house" band of the Valencia
International Meetings on Bayesian Statistics
and International
Society for Bayesian Analysis World Meetings
is now live.
We are scheduled to be the dance band at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings
in Seattle, WA.
Have us play at your weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.
- I gave a talk on "A Bayesian Dynamic Model
for Multi-competitor Sports" at the
New England Statistics Symposium at the
Harvard School of
Public Health on April 26, 2014.
I was also on the program committee for the conference.
- Carl
Bialik of
fivethirtyeight.com wrote a
nice piece
on March 19, 2014 on the
NCAA prediction contest I co-organized on kaggle.com.
-
I am organizing a special issue of the
Journal of Quantitative
Analysis in Sports on predicting NCAA tournament
game outcomes.
A detailed
call for papers
has been posted on the
ASA Statistics in Sports Section web site.
- I have a research contract with the
US Olympic Committee
to evaluate rating systems applied to sports outcomes of Olympic athletes.
- I have written an
introductory note
to the paper "The calculation of the results of a tournament
as a maximum problem in the calculus of probabilities" by
Ernst Zermelo
which appears in the recently-published
Collected Works of Ernst Zermelo, Vol 2.
- I am the
2014 JSM
Program Chair for the
Section on Statistics in Sports of the American Statistical Association.
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