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What's New?
(older news items here)
- I am faculty advisor to the Society of Harvard Undergraduate
Magicians (SHAM).
We performed a magic show for the Harvard Club of Merrimac Valley on
February 25, 2023 which was videorecorded and
posted on youtube.
It's worth watching the whole video, but
the four tricks I performed can be found at times 13:35,
25:42, 1:01:02, and 1:18:38.
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The manuscript "Bayesian analysis
of longitudinal studies with treatment by indication"
by
Reagan Mozer and me
has been accepted for publication
in Health Services
and Outcomes Research Methodology.
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I presented
"Rating competitors in games with strength-dependent tie probabilities"
at the colloquium series of the
Department of Statistics, Operations and Data Science at Temple University
on November 4, 2022.
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After a 3-year gap, I have been appointed chair of the US Chess
ratings committee. I have served as a member continuously since 1985,
and had previously been chair 1992-2019.
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I was interviewed for and appeared in
Adam Whitaker's 90-minute documentary on chess ratings.
The movie
is available for viewing on YouTube.
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I have been funded by the science group at
Chessable
(click on the "View Our Active Scientific Research" banner)
to analyze chess rating data to understand whether the differential
performance among genders can be explained by different
participation rates.
Chessable wrote a blog post announcing the award.
The project will involve a fresh look at earlier work
carried out by me and
Christopher Chabris in our
2006 Psychological Science paper.
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I have been appointed the Chair of the American Statistical Association's
Committee on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
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I am the Director of Masters Program in Statistics
at Harvard University.
The program is open only for undergraduates wishing to
finish their studies with a concurrent masters degree,
as well as existing PhD students at Harvard.
- I am the editor for the "Recreations in Randomness" column
in the Harvard Data Science Review.
- I am the founding head of the
Sports Analytics Laboratory (SAL) in the Harvard Statistics Department.
See the
SAL web site
for more details.