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What's New?
(older news items here)
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I was quoted a June 2026 Chess Life article,
Inside
Story: What Really Counts,
on how easy it is to be a "slave to your [chess] rating".
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My paper
Regularization in
Paired Comparison Models via Pseudo-Games and Phantom Players
has been uploaded to arXiv, and is currently under peer review for
journal publication.
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The paper
Come Together:
Analyzing Popular Songs Through Statistical Embeddings
by
Matthew Esmaili Mallory,
me, and
Jason Brown,
has been uploaded to arXiv, and is under review for journal publication.
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I presented
"Rating competitors in games with strength-dependent tie probabilities"
at the
Department of Biomedical Data Science seminar series at the
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine on Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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I gave the keynote presentation
"Data Tripper: Authorship Attribution Analysis of Lennon-McCartney Songs"
at the
Villanova University Math and Statistics Spring Student Research Symposium
on April 30, 2026.
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I gave a keynote presentation at the
Connecticut
Sports Analytics Symposium on Saturday, April 11, 2026 at
the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
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I was recently interviewed on the
Stats + Stories podcast, along with
Larry Lesser,
to talk about statistical songwriting,
and how music can help communicate and teach statistical ideas.
Our segment begins around the 28:50 mark of the episode.
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The paper
"Rating competitors in games with strength-dependent tie probabilities"
has been accepted for publication in
Journal of Data Science.
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The paper
"Paired comparison models with strength-dependent ties and order effects"
has been accepted for publication
in Statistical Modelling.
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The Harvard Gazette wrote a
short piece
about the two papers above, aimed at a non-technical audience.