The 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings start Sunday in Chicago. Karl Broman put out his calendar – I figured I’d put mine together as well. Here’s a combination of sports, causal inference, and education talks that I noticed. If there’s something related that I should also be at, please let me know!
Also, kudos to Karl for pointing me to the JSM snack page. This is my fourth JSM and somehow this is the first I’ve heard about this. And also to Greg for helping out with JSM’s art show. This is the first of its kind, and hopefully something that grows in the future.
Sunday
2:00, Free Agent
4:00, Hard choice
- For the Love of the Game: Applications of Statistics in Sports
- 4th downs, NCAA item-response, Baseball hall of fame voting
- New Matching Designs to Get the Most from Observational Data
- Matching, full matching, calipers
6:00, Opening mixer and posters
Monday
8:30, Hard choice
- Applied Data Visualization in Industry and Journalism
- Facebook, 538, fun graphs
- Advanced Methods for Statistics in Sports
- Tennis, NHL penalty differential, baseball, pitch framing
10:30, Back & forth
- Statistical Computing and Sports Speed Sessions
- NFL expected points model
12:30, Lunch
- From Pixels to Points: Using Tracking Data to Measure Performance in Professional Sports (Bornn/Franks)
2:00, Back & forth
- HPSS Student Paper Competition Winners
- PSM with continuous treatments/spatial confounding
- Speed sports posters
- Small college statisticians
5:30, Statistics in Sports business meeting
Tuesday
8:30, Back & forth
- Health Policy Statistics Section posters
- Multiple treatments, hospital rankings, DiD
- Missing Data Methods
- Confounding & missing at random
10:30, Sports panel
- The power of statistics in sports
- Michael Schuckers, Brian Macdonald, Dennis Lock
2:00, Hard Choice
Wednesday
8:30, Hard choice
- Safety research at the Federal Highway Administration
- I have no idea why this interests me, but it does
- Reproducibility in Statistics and Data Science
- All-star cast
- NBA player level contributions
- XY-group reunion
10:30, Causal inference back & forth
2:00, Sight-seeing?
5:30, Statistics in Education business meeting
Thursday
8:30, Back & forth
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Which one is the “Teaching with the bootstrap” session? I might have missed that one when I went through the program. The link here doesn’t work.