Applied Statistics Working Group

The Applied Statistics Working Group at Dartmouth College is an interdisciplinary group of faculty members and graduate students who use statistics in their research.

Schedule of speakers for the 2007-2008 academic year:

• Justin Wolfers, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, October 5, 2007.

Racial Discrimination among NBA Referees (available here)

See the Rockefeller Center calendar for details on Wolfers’s public lecture.

• Andrew Gelman, Columbia University, October 12, 2007 (co-sponsored by the Department of Government).

Culture Wars, Voting, and Polarization: Divisions and Unities in Modern American Politics (related papers are available here, here, and here)

• Jungsoon Choi, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, October 26, 2007.

Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Prediction of Speciated Fine Particles

*** CHOI SEMINAR CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS ***

• Robert Costanza, University of Vermont, November 2, 2007.

Ecosystem Services: Dynamics, Modeling, and Valuation at Multiple Scales

• Greg Allenby, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, November 16, 2007

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Marketing Expenditures (available here)

• Tor Tosteson, Dartmouth Medical School, December 7, 2007.

Statistical Methods for Cross-Over in the Spine Patients Outcomes Research Trial (related papers are available here and here)

• Walter Mebane, University of Michigan, January 25, 2008.

Election Forensics: Who Won? (or Who Stole It)? (related paper available here)

• Andrew Martin, Washington University, February 8, 2008 (co-sponsored by the Program in Politics and Law).

Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging (available here)

*** Martin Seminar will take place in the 1930s Room, Rockefeller Center ***

• Ian Sue Wing, Boston University, February 29, 2008.

• Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College, March 7, 2007.

An Eliot Effect? Prosecutorial Discretion in Mutual Fund Settlement Negotiations, 2003-07 (available here)

• Louise Ryan, Harvard School of Public Health, March 28, 2008.

*** RYAN SEMINAR CANCELED ***

• Bill Shipley, Universite de Sherbrooke, April 4, 2008.

From Plan Traits to Vegetable Structure: Chance and Selection in the Assembly of Ecological Communities.

• Alberto Abadie, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 11, 2008.

Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program (available here)

• Ben Olken, Harvard Society of Fellows, April 25, 2008.

Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half-Century

• Richard Rendleman, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2, 2008.

Skill, Luck, and Streaky Play on the PGA Tour (available here)

• Steve Schwager, Cornell University, May 9, 2008.

Global Assessment of Contaminants and Risk-Benefit Analysis for Farmed and Wild Salmon

Unless specifically noted, seminars will take place in the Tuck School of Business, Room 107 (the Conway Room). Lunch will be provided for seminar attendees starting at noon, and seminars will run from 12:30pm to 2:00pm.

The Applied Statistics pre-doctoral research fellow for 2007-2008 is Holger Kern.

Questions? Please contact Michael Herron (Michael.Herron “at” dartmouth.edu)