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Longitudinal Position and Cancer Risk in the United States Revisited
Jin Niu, Charlotte Brown, Michael Law +2
Background: The debate over daylight saving time has surged, with interests in the effects of sunlight exposure on health. \commentnj{Prior studies simulated daylight saving time a…
The Hot Hand and Its Effect on the NBA
Brian McNair, Eric Margolin, Michael Law +1
This paper aims to revisit and expand upon previous work on the "hot hand" phenomenon in basketball, specifically in the NBA. Using larger, modern data sets, we test streakiness of…
Markovian And Non-Markovian Processes with Active Decision Making Strategies For Addressing The COVID-19 Pandemic
Hamid Eftekhari, Debarghya Mukherjee, Moulinath Banerjee +1
We study and predict the evolution of Covid-19 in six US states from the period May 1 through August 31 using a discrete compartment-based model and prescribe active intervention p…
The utility of a Bayesian analysis of complex models and the study of archeological C data
Ya'acov Ritov
The paper presents a critical introduction to the complex statistical models used in C dating. The emphasis is on the estimation of the transit time between a sequence of…
Around the goal: Examining the effect of the first goal on the second goal in soccer using survival analysis methods
Daniel Nevo, Ya'acov Ritov
In this paper we apply survival techniques to soccer data, treating a goal scoring as the event of interest. It specifically concerns the relationship between the time of the first…
The Best Linear Unbiased Estimator for Continuation of a Function
Yair Goldberg, Ya'acov Ritov, Avishai Mandelbaum
We show how to construct the best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) for the continuation of a curve in a spline-function model. We assume that the entire curve is drawn from some sm…