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February 17, 2020
Members Jay Bartroff, Larry Goldstein and Gary Lorden were chosen by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) to be the statisticians on a committee with physicists, engineers, and baseball experts studying MLB’s recent surge in home runs. The committee studied vast amounts of game data, performed laboratory tests on…
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In a recent post, Roger C. Schonfeld reported: “At ITHAKA’s Next Wave conference, leaders from academic societies, libraries, publishers, and other organizations…
Ruobin Gong is Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University. Her research interests lie at the theoretical foundations of Bayesian and generalized Bayesian methodologies, statistical modeling, inference, and computation with differentially private data, and ethical implications of aspects of modern data science. Ruobin received her PhD in statistics from Harvard…
Radu V. Craiu, our newest Contributing Editor, is Professor and Chair of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He studied Mathematics at the University of Bucharest (BS 1995, MS 1996), and received a PhD from the Department of Statistics at The University of Chicago in 2001. His main research…
Roger Koenker was born in 1947 in North Dakota, graduated from Grinnell College in 1969 and received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1974. He began his academic career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974. From 1976–83, he was a Member of the Technical Staff…