Old News

• The paper "Sex differences in intellectual performance: Analysis of a large cohort of competitive chess players" (by Chabris CF and Glickman ME) has been published in the December 2006 issue of Psychological Science. The publisher has sent out a press release about the article.
  
  The article has been cited in the New York Post, the June 2007 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, and the chess column in the July 22, 2007, issue of the NY Times.

• I presented one of the plenary talks at the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro on October 13, 2007, speaking on Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments.

• The paper Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments has been accepted to the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.

• The Boston University Daily Free Press wrote an article on September 21, 2007, about recent collaborative work on college rankings.

• On February 14, 2008, I gave the talk Differential Item Functioning in a Graded Response IRT Model: A Bayesian Approach to Item Discrimination at the 2008 HSR&D National Meeting, the annual health research meeting of the Department of Veterans Affairs, having taken place in Baltimore, MD.
  The talk involved showing a sequence of plots as a movie to demonstrate the results of an MCMC posterior simulation.

• I was a guest appearing on Dan Heisman's chess radio program "Ask the Renaissance Man" on ChessFM at 9:00pm on June 26, 2008, having discussed all things chess ratings related.

• I presented Separating the best from the rest: Scheduling a tournament as a Bayesian locally-optimal design at 5:00pm on July 23, 2008 at the 9th World Conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, held on Hamilton Island, Australia.

• I presented Bayesian Locally-Optimal Design of Knockout Tournaments at 4:00pm on July 28, 2008, at the Department of Statistics, University of Auckland (New Zealand).

• On Tuesday, October 28, 2008, I gave a lunchtime talk "Differential Item Functioning in a Graded Response IRT Model: A Bayesian Approach to Item Discrimination" at the Health Care Policy Department at Harvard Medical School.

• The book "Topics in Biostatistics" (edited by Walter Ambrosius) has been published July 2007. It contains a chapter on basics Bayesian methods coauthored by me and David van Dyk of UC Irvine. The book can be purchased from amazon.com.

• I was co-organizer (along with Harvard School of Public Health Senior Research Scientist Scott Evans) of the conference, "2007 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports", which was held at the Harvard University Science Center on Saturday, September 29, 2007.
  
  An article about the conference appeared in the October 4, 2007 issue of the Harvard Gazette.
  
  The Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports has published the proceedings of the conference in its April 2008 issue.
  
  Here is a video of the opening remarks from the conference.

• The paper "Psychometric properties of the Spanish BASIS-24 mental health survey" by Susan Eisen, Pradipta Seal, me, et al., has been accepted and will appear in the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research.

• I am quoted in a NY Times article published on January 17, 2009, and on the NY Times Chess Blog on January 14, 2009, concerning chess rating system formulas and dynamics.

• On August 3, 2009, I was awarded the 2009 Statistics in Sports Award by the Section on Statistics in Sports of the American Statistical Association. The award was "in recognition of significant contributions to the development of statistical methods for rating competitors in games and sports."

• I presented two talks at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings in Washgington, DC, in early August. On Monday, August 3, I presented a lunchtime talk Rating the Competition: Lessons from the World of Tournament Chess, and on Thursday, August 6, I presented Creative Problem Solving in Statistical Consulting with Limited Time and a Limited Budget.

• The paper "A non-parametric Bayesian diagnostic for detecting differential item functioning in IRT models" by me, Pradipta Seal, and Susan Eisen has been accepted for publication at Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology.

• I co-organized (along with Scott Evans) the "2009 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports", held at the Harvard University Science Center on Saturday, September 26, 2009.

• The paper "Predisposing characteristics, enabling resources and need as predictors of utilization and clinical outcomes for veterans receiving mental health services" by Dee Fasoli, me, and Sue Eisen, has been accepted for publication in Medical Care.

• The paper "Improving risk adjustment of self-reported mental health outcomes" by Amy Rosen, Sharmila Chatterjee, me, Avron Spiro, Pradipta Seal and Sue Eisen has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research.

The paper "Using magic in the teaching of probability and statistics" by Lawrence Lesser and me has been published in Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, in a special issue on teaching statistics problems.

The paper "The incremental value of self-reported mental health measures in predicting functional outcomes of veterans" by Sue Eisen, Kathryn Bottonari, Mark Glickman, et al., has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research.

I gave a talk at the New England Statistics Symposium at Harvard University on April 17, 2010, on Paired Comparison Models with Tie Probabilities and Order Effects as a Function of Strength.