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Do Most Students Need In-Person Lectures? A Study of a Large Statistics Class
Ellen S. Fireman, Zachary S. Donnini, Michael B. Weissman +1
Over 1100 students over four semesters were given the option of taking an introductory undergraduate statistics class either by in-person attendance in lectures or by taking exactl…
SEAM methodology for context-rich player matchup evaluations
Julia Wapner, David Dalpiaz, Daniel J. Eck
We develop the SEAM (synthetic estimated average matchup) method for describing batter versus pitcher matchups in baseball. We first estimate the distribution of balls put into pla…
Challenging nostalgia and performance metrics in baseball
Daniel J. Eck
We show that the great baseball players that started their careers before 1950 are overrepresented among rankings of baseball's all time greatest players. The year 1950 coincides w…
Randomization for the susceptibility effect of an infectious disease intervention
Daniel J. Eck, Olga Morozova, Forrest W. Crawford
Randomized trials of infectious disease interventions, such as vaccines, often focus on groups of connected or potentially interacting individuals. When the pathogen of interest is…
Multivariate Design of Experiments for Engineering Dimensional Analysis
Daniel J. Eck, Christopher J. Nachtsheim, R. Dennis Cook +1
We consider the design of dimensional analysis experiments when there is more than a single response. We first give a brief overview of dimensional analysis experiments and the dim…
Combining Envelope Methodology and Aster Models for Variance Reduction in Life History Analyses
Daniel J. Eck, Charles J. Geyer, R. Dennis Cook
Precise estimation of expected Darwinian fitness, the expected lifetime number of offspring of organism, is a central component of life history analysis. The aster model serves as…