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What's New?
(older news items here)
- I have been elected 2014 Program Chair for the
Section on Statistics in Sports of the American Statistical
Association, which will take place in Boston, MA.
- I have been promoted to Research Professor of Health Policy
and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health,
February 2012.
- At long last, the iterative procedure in the
Glicko-2
rating system has been fixed!
It is now usable without fear of crashing/hanging.
- I will be presenting
"Measuring competitor strength in games and sports through an approximate Bayesian filter: The Glicko System"
at the
ISBA 2012 Conference
in Kyoto, Japan, on June 28, 2012.
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I will be presenting
two talks at the Biomedical Statistics Seminar
at the
Department of
Biomedical Statistics at the
Osaka University
Graduate School of Medicine:
The first is "Making Sense Out of Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction"
and the second is "Rating the Chess Rating System".
The talks will begin at 2:30pm on July 2, 2012, and will be held
in Room B, 3F, IchoKaikan, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
- I will be giving a discussion at the invited paper session
Predicting for Profit: Data Modeling Competitions on Kaggle.com, which I organized.
The session will take place at the
2012 Joint Statistical Meetings
on Monday, July 30, 2012, 8:30am-10:20am, at the
San Diego Convention Center.
- I have been invited to be the 2012 Bohn Scholar at the
40th Annual Mathematics and Statistics Conference - Statistics in Sports
at the
Miami University of Ohio, and will present two plenary talks
on September 28-29, 2012.
- I am the program co-chair of the General Methodology section
(along with Yoonkyung Lee)
for the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings.
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