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The American Community Survey 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Kari Lock Morgan, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Dalene Stangl use the American Community Survey to apply statistical thinking to dissecting the socioeconomic components of contemporary life in the United...
Supplemental Material – Vol. 26, No. 1 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Battleship Appendix American Community Survey Data Set
Editor’s Letter – Vol. 26, No. 1 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Dear Readers, In my office, there is a banged-up copy of the first edition of Casella-Berger’s highly acclaimed textbook, Statistical Inference, which not only reminds me of the most exciting course I...
Salaries and Wins in Baseball 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Shane Jensen explores the popular discussion among baseball fans—is there a relationship between player salary and performance?
Special Issue on George Casella’s Books 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Christian Robert organizes a special Book Reviews column in remembrance of George Casella.
Statistical Intelligence Units 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Bhojnarine Rambharat demonstrates how statistical techniques from exploratory data analysis to far more sophisticated validation tools can be used in anti-money laundering endeavors and combating othe...
Data, Data, Everywhere … 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Nicole Lazar discusses the Quantified Self movement, a fascinating blend of self-improvement and the data collection and exploratory data analysis aspects of statistics.
Building the Biostatistics Pipeline: Summer Institutes for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Lisa Sullivan, Marie Davidian, Anita L. DeStefano, and Roslyn Stone report on the impressive work of the Summer Institutes for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS), a program in which undergraduates are e...
Goodness of Wit Test #19: No Real Opposition 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Jonathan Berkowitz's 19th puzzle is titled "No Real Opposition." This puzzle focuses on false opposites.
The War on Data 5 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
Andrew Gelman and Mark Palko magnify the responsibilities that come with public data-sharing in a wider context of informing citizens of a democratic society with factual and reliable doses of reality...
