Moving a Paralyzed Hand—A Biomedical Big Data Success Story
David A. Friedenberg and Michael A. Schwemmer Ian Burkhart was paralyzed during a vacation to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in June of 2010 when he collided with a sandbar while diving into incoming waves and suffered a spinal cord injury. Ian’s injury severed the communication links between his brain and his body from […]
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Zika Is Here, and We Need Statistics
Abigail Smith A new virus du jour is sending epidemiologists and statisticians across the world into a frenzy. Its name is Zika. Headlines continually blare things like “State health officials urged to get ready for Zika in the United States” and “Zika could make America’s contraception failures even worse.” Scientists continue to grapple with the […]
Sea Turtles: A Case of Animal Magnetism
Michael Lavine, J. Roger Brothers, Kenneth J. Lohmann, and Isaac Lavine The scientific exploration of whether and how migratory animals return to their birth areas goes back at least to John James Audubon, who tied silver threads to the legs of young songbirds and observed their return in the following year. Different species use different […]
Careers in Sports Analytics—Highlights of an ASA Webinar
The American Statistical Association recently hosted a webinar focusing on the role of statistics in sports and career opportunities in that niche. CHANCE editor Scott Evans moderated the session. This article provides a transcript of the webinar, with some editing for space and magazine style and audience. Scott Evans: Good afternoon, everyone. … welcome to […]
Statistics Books to Read for Pleasure
On the American Statistical Association’s community site, our online community coordinator—Lara Harmon—asked, “As the summer draws to an end, did you pick up any stats-related pleasure reads this summer? Any you would recommend?“ We include some of the answers here. To read more, visit the ASA Community (you will have to log in). Check out […]
Searching for the Black Box: Misconceptions of Linearity
Michael Bossé, Eric Marland, Gregory Rhoads, and Michael Rudziewicz You have lost contact with an unmanned surveillance plane as it is flying over a large stretch of uninhabited desert. You send high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft to take pictures of a potential crash site in the middle of the desert. The pictures reveal large pieces of what […]
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- Predicting the Unknown—Sampling, Smoke, and Mirrors
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- Why Babe Ruth Never Hit for the Cycle, and Other Hitting for the Cycle Tidbits
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