Pub Date : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2539997
Sara Stoudt, Deborah Nolan
{"title":"The Storyboard: A Tool to Synthesize, Reflect On, and Write About Data Investigations","authors":"Sara Stoudt, Deborah Nolan","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2539997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2539997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144747266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2539998
Andrey Skripnikov, Sujit Sivadanam
{"title":"American Football Scores: Using Partially Regularized Ordinal Regression to Adjust for Strength of Opponents, Within-Team Complementary Unit Performance","authors":"Andrey Skripnikov, Sujit Sivadanam","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2539998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2539998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144747264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2539241
Paul Sheridan, Zeyad Ahmed, Aitazaz A. Farooque
{"title":"A Fisher’s exact test justification of the TF–IDF term-weighting scheme","authors":"Paul Sheridan, Zeyad Ahmed, Aitazaz A. Farooque","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2539241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2539241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144737008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2539235
Peter J. Rousseeuw
{"title":"Explainable Linear and Generalized Linear Models by the Predictions Plot","authors":"Peter J. Rousseeuw","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2539235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2539235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144715456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2537055
Fernando Rodriguez Avellaneda, Erick A. Chacón-Montalván, Paula Moraga
{"title":"Multivariate disaggregation modeling of air pollutants: a case-study of PM2.5, PM10 and ozone prediction in Portugal and Italy","authors":"Fernando Rodriguez Avellaneda, Erick A. Chacón-Montalván, Paula Moraga","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2537055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2537055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2527319
Kwun Chuen Gary Chan
{"title":"A First Course in Causal Inference.","authors":"Kwun Chuen Gary Chan","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2527319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2527319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144577847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2526545
Md. Belal Hossain, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, James C. Johnston, Hubert Wong, Victoria J. Cook, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim
{"title":"LASSO-based Survival Prediction Modelling with Multiply Imputed Data: A Case Study in Tuberculosis Mortality Prediction","authors":"Md. Belal Hossain, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, James C. Johnston, Hubert Wong, Victoria J. Cook, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2526545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2526545","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2515869
Owen Fiore, Elizabeth D. Schifano, Jun Yan
Devon Allen’s disqualification at the men’s 110-meter hurdle final at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships, due to a reaction time (RT) of 0.099 seconds—just 0.001 seconds below the allowable threshold—sparked widespread debate over the fairness and validity of RT rules. This study investigates two key issues: variations in timing systems and the justification for the 0.1-second disqualification threshold. We pooled RT data from men’s 110-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, as well as women’s 100-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, spanning national and international competitions. Using a rank-sum test for clustered data, we compared RTs across multiple competitions, while a generalized Gamma model with random effects for venue and heat was applied to evaluate the threshold. Our analyses reveal significant differences in RTs between the 2022 World Championships and other competitions, pointing to systematic variations in timing systems. Additionally, the model shows that RTs below 0.1 seconds, though rare, are physiologically plausible. These findings highlight the need for standardized timing protocols and a re-evaluation of the 0.1-second disqualification threshold to promote fairness in elite competition.
{"title":"On Devon Allen’s Disqualification at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships","authors":"Owen Fiore, Elizabeth D. Schifano, Jun Yan","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2515869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2515869","url":null,"abstract":"Devon Allen’s disqualification at the men’s 110-meter hurdle final at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships, due to a reaction time (RT) of 0.099 seconds—just 0.001 seconds below the allowable threshold—sparked widespread debate over the fairness and validity of RT rules. This study investigates two key issues: variations in timing systems and the justification for the 0.1-second disqualification threshold. We pooled RT data from men’s 110-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, as well as women’s 100-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, spanning national and international competitions. Using a rank-sum test for clustered data, we compared RTs across multiple competitions, while a generalized Gamma model with random effects for venue and heat was applied to evaluate the threshold. Our analyses reveal significant differences in RTs between the 2022 World Championships and other competitions, pointing to systematic variations in timing systems. Additionally, the model shows that RTs below 0.1 seconds, though rare, are physiologically plausible. These findings highlight the need for standardized timing protocols and a re-evaluation of the 0.1-second disqualification threshold to promote fairness in elite competition.","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}