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What have department members been up to?
- May 14, 2024: Jerzy Wieczorek and Colby statistics students were featured in a Colby Magazine article about our Spring 2024 ASA DataFest
- March 19, 2024: Jim Scott was quoted in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel article, “Can science help predict a winning NCAA basketball tournament bracket?”
- October 2, 2023: Jim Scott and Liam O’Brien were quoted in a Colby Magazine article about our new Data Science major
- August 23, 2023: Jerzy Wieczorek and Colby alumni were featured in a Colby Magazine article about “Building a better statistical model”
- July 5, 2023: Jerzy Wieczorek was mentioned in a Colby Magazine article about civic engagement courses
- July 23, 2023: Jerzy Wieczorek was interviewed by the Portland Press Herald for an article on “Can ChatGPT help Maine food professionals save time?”
- June 20-23, 2022: Jerzy Wieczorek and alum Emily Tupaj ’21 presented a poster on “CIPerm: An R package for Computationally Efficient Confidence Intervals from Permutation Tests” at useR!, the R User Conference
- March, 2023: Liam O’Brien and collaborators presented on “The Role of the Modern Statistician in the Era of Easily Disseminated Statistical Knowledge” at the International Biometric Society – Eastern North American Region (ENAR) meeting
- January, 2023: Liam O’Brien and Jim Scott presented on “A Model for Building Interdepartmental Bridges in the Data Science Curriculum” at the Joint Math Meetings
- January 13, 2022: Jerzy Wieczorek and alumni Cole Guerin ’21 and Thomas McMahon ’21 published “K-fold cross-validation for complex sample surveys” in Stat
- Aug 7-12, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek led a roundtable discussion on “Machine Learning with Complex Survey Data” at the Joint Statistical Meetings
- July 1, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek posted an “Apportionment Calculator” R Shiny app, accompanying an 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
- June 10, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek was featured in a Colby Magazine article about our Spring 2021 ASA DataFest
- March 19-21, 2021: Jerzy Wieczorek and the Statistics department 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
- February 25, 2021: Liam O’Brien was featured in a Colby Magazine article on “Detecting Sarcoma at the Right Time”
- 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
- 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