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  • A novel way to gamble on the NCAA tournament…

    I saw a talk at JSM where I was introduced to a fun new (well, new to me) game to play during the NCAA tournament.  First, teams are assigned a price based on their seed.  This can be done in many ways, but it was set in the talk that the one seeds cost 25…

  • Olympic Medals – July 31, 2012

            Cheers.

  • JSM 2011 – Statistical Disclosure Control via Suppression: Some thoughts

    I attended a session at JSM (in Miami.  In August….) where the big topic was statistical disclosure control (SDC) via suppression in linked tables.  As far as I can tell suppression is the most popular and widely used method of SDC for tables, but it seems that the application of this procedure is extremely ad…

  • JSM 2011 review / Miami in August!

    I don’t know how many of you have ever been to Miami Beach in August, but it’s not exactly…..comfortable.  But that’s where my quest for knowledge took me in the first week of August to the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2011. I attended a really interesting session “Statistical Analyses of Judging in Athletic Competitions: The…

  • JSM (in the wild)

    I’ve been in Vancouver the past week for the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) . Here is a collection of my thoughts and comments from the few days I was at the conference. On Monday I went to the section on Survey Research Methods and saw Meena Khare, of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)…