Comments on: Bend it like Poisson http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/astroph-07061758/ Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/astroph-07061758/comment-page-1/#comment-26 hlee Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:38:54 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/astroph-07061758/#comment-26 This might be irrelevant but I'd like to mention this conference because it will be held at the same building where our group meeting happens. <a href="http://www.amstat.org/Chapters/boston/nessis07.html" rel="nofollow"> 2007 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sport</a> to be held Sept. 29th, 2007 at Science Center. One of the most frequently mentioned works of Prof. B. Efron is generalizing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James-Stein_estimator" rel="nofollow"> Stein's estimator,</a> where he used baseball batting records. Sportstatistics has been one of the important subfields in statistical science and as you pointed out lots of similarity of interests can be discovered due to the fact sports activity is full of motions (physics). This might be irrelevant but I’d like to mention this conference because it will be held at the same building where our group meeting happens.
2007 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sport to be held Sept. 29th, 2007 at Science Center.

One of the most frequently mentioned works of Prof. B. Efron is generalizing Stein’s estimator, where he used baseball batting records. Sportstatistics has been one of the important subfields in statistical science and as you pointed out lots of similarity of interests can be discovered due to the fact sports activity is full of motions (physics).

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