Pixel by Pixel: Artistic Achievements
Donna LaLonde In the April 2023 issue of CHANCE, we issued a generative art challenge. “A person paints with their brains and not with their hands.” This quote, attributed to Michelangelo (and modified by us), captures the spirit of our art challenge—”Pixel by Pixel: The Art of CHANCE.” For this challenge, we wanted our readers […]
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The Impact of Altitude Training on NCAA Division I Female Swimmers’ Performance
Katherine L. Manzione, Bailey K. Fosdick, Ryan Elmore, and Connor Gibbs According to “Endurance Training at Altitude” by Philo U. Saunders and colleagues and “Impaired Interval Exercise Responses in Elite Female Cyclists at Moderate Simulated Altitude” by Maria J. Brosnan and colleagues, athletes in many endurance-based sports believe altitude training assists with higher levels of […]
Confidence Interval for a Binomial p: Recommend the Wilson Interval to Students
Per Gösta Andersson Is there anything more fundamental within the area of statistical inference than the estimation, in this case interval estimation, of a probability based on success/failure trials? The problem is conceptually easy for students to understand, but finding a satisfactory solution turns out to be an exercise that is far from trivial. Moreover, […]
Remembering Katherine Wallman
Ron Wasserstein In this article, we remember Katherine Wallman, who blended her passion and aptitude for statistics with public service. She had a remarkable career in federal statistics, including serving as the chief statistician from 1992 to her retirement in 2017. Throughout her career, she was a tireless advocate for the importance of accurate and […]
Multiple Discoveries in Causal Inference: LATE for the Party
Stuart G. Baker and Karen S. Lindeman Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed by the authors are their own, and this material should not be interpreted as representing the official viewpoint of the US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, or the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention. In 1994, […]
Creating a Household Living Budget Using Publicly Available Data: A 21st Century Census Curated Data Enterprise Use Case
The 21st Century Census Curated Data Enterprise is a proposed shift away from relying on individual surveys and toward reusing and integrating multiple data sources to produce more timely and geographically granular statistical products. Rather than starting with individual surveys and generating products based on these surveys, we propose starting with stakeholder questions that provide the context for the creation of statistical products.
