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What have department members been up to?
- Aug 7-12, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek was leading a roundtable discussion on “Machine Learning with Complex Survey Data” at the Joint Statistical Meetings, held virtually
- July 22, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek published online “Model-Selection Properties of Forward Selection and Sequential Cross-Validation for High-Dimensional Regression,” Wieczorek and Lei, Canadian Journal of Statistics [full text read-only link]
- July 1, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek posted “Apportionment Calculator” R Shiny app, accompanying Amstat News article on “Demystifying Apportionment Computations for the US House of Representatives”
- June 28 – July 1, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek presented on “Fundamentals of data visualization for education” at the US Conference on Teaching Statistics, held virtually
- June 10, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek was featured in Colby Magazine article about our Spring 2021 ASA DataFest
- June 2-4, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek presented on “K-fold Cross-Validation for Complex Sample Surveys” at the Symposium on Data Science & Statistics, held virtually
- May 24-26, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek presented on “K-fold Cross-Validation for Complex Sample Surveys” at the US Census Bureau’s Summer at Census seminars program, held virtually
- March 19-21, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek helped to organize the first Colby College DataFest, a regional event under the auspices of the ASA DataFest, with student participants from Colby College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, and College of the Atlantic
- December 22, 2020: Jerzy Wieczorek’s article was accepted, “Model-Selection Properties of Forward Selection and Sequential Cross-Validation for High-Dimensional Regression,” Wieczorek and Lei, Canadian Journal of Statistics
- October 20 – 24, 2020: Liam O’Brien and collaborators presented at the American Public Health Association Meeting.
- September, 2020: Liam O’Brien and collaborators have papers that have been accepted for publication in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, British Journal of Radiology, Journal of Nursing Measurement, and Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine.
- September, 2020: Bret Zeldow’s paper “Functional clustering methods for longitudinal data with application to electronic health records” has been accepted for publication in Statistical Methods in Medical Research.
- March 12, 2020: Jerzy Wieczorek and collaborators published “A joint confidence region for an overall ranking of populations,” in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C
- January 24, 2020: Jerzy Wieczorek presented on “K-fold Cross-Validation for Complex Survey Data” at UMass Amherst
- November 1, 2019: Jerzy Wieczorek and collaborators posted the preprint of “Think-aloud interviews: A tool for exploring student statistical reasoning” to the arXiv.
- October 22, 2019: Jerzy Wieczorek presented on “Model Selection and Stopping Rules for High-Dimensional Forward Selection” at Bowdoin College.
- October 10, 2019: Instagram story about Jerzy Wieczorek‘s “Statistical Surveys, Censuses, and Society” civic engagement course, partnering with the Waterville Fire-Rescue Department
- July, 2019: Liam O’Brien and collaborators published “Digital Food and Beverage Marketing Environments in a National Sample of Middle Schools: Implications for Policy and Practice” in Journal of School Health.
- Spring 2019: The work of Liam O’Brien and alum Alane O’Connor ’96 on treating pregnant women with opiod-addiction and their babies was featured in the Colby Magazine.