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What's New?
(older news items here)
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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 have been interviewed by a few media outlets about some probabilistic
(and arithmetic)
issues involved with lotteries, now that the Mega Millions jackpot (as of
July 26, 2022) has reached $1 billion.
These include the
Washington Post,
Inside Edition,
KDKA, the CBS TV station in Pittsburgh,
KXAS, the NBC TV station in Dallas ,
and
WCVB, the ABC TV station in Boston.
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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 will be presenting an Introductory Overview Lecture
titled
Basics of measuring competitor strength and evaluating player contribution
at the
2022 Joint
Statistical Meetings in August.
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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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The manuscript
"Inferring medication adherence from time-varying health outcomes"
by Kristen Hunter, me, and Luis Campos, has been accepted for
publication in Statistics in Medicine.
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I was interviewed on November 19, 2021,
along with three colleagues who are outgoing members of the
American Statistical Association
Board of Directors,
on the monthly ASA podcast
Practical Significance.
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I appeared as a guest on the October 26, 2021 episode of
Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess podcast discussing chess, ratings, and chess ratings.
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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.