Statistics Research
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Running Experts: You’ve Already Hit Your Stride
USA Track and Field consultant Iain Hunter and U.S. Olympian Jared Ward have a message for runners: Don’t mess with your stride.
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“Does eating chocolate cause Nobel Prizes?” and other causal inferences
Studying human behavior in a lab poses myriad problems. Dr. Gordon Dahl developed a method that allows scientists to more accurately measure human behavior.
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Family Law Research Highlights Worldwide Inequality Among Women
Statistics is more than just numbers and charts—it can also impact women’s rights for generations to come.
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Statistics MVP: Grad Student Rates College Athletes
Many junior high students like to watch sports, but few use statistics to accurately predict the NBA’s most valuable player. Zachary Knowlton, who is graduating this month with a master’s degree in statistics, is the exception.
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Big Data Is Actually a Big Deal
Imagine working on important projects for major companies such as Adobe, FamilySearch, and Qualtrics as an undergraduate student. That’s what students do for their final projects in Dr. Quinn Snell and Dr. Christophe Giraud-Carrier’s Big Data Science and Capstone course in BYU’s computer science department.
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Statistics Prof Finds the Most Common Plays aren’t Necessarily the Most Effective for Scoring
The pick and roll is one of the fundamental and most common offensive plays in basketball—just ask Karl Malone and John Stockton. But should it be?
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Setting the Odds for Those with MS
Both the doctors who treat multiple sclerosis and the people who experience it agree that the disease is highly unpredictable.
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Statistics Makes the Assist
With so many sports and so many different teams on television, it is important for broadcasters to know which sports and which teams draw the largest TV audiences. Statistics professor Dr. Scott Grimshaw and graduate student Paul Sabin sought to discover which teams people are drawn to watch.
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BYU Professor Uses Spatial Data to Help Prevent Illness
Summer temperatures can pose a serious threat to public health, but BYU professor Matthew Heaton is using statistics to help alleviate this problem.
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Calculating the Statistics of Success
What’s the probability that a few collegiate departments around the state could get together and predict the winners of the mid-term election?
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Football Ratings Study: The Bandwagon is Your Second-favorite Team
When it comes to watching NFL games in Utah on television, the most popular teams are the Broncos, Cowboys or 49ers.
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Death in the Trek: A Study of Mormon Pioneer Mortality
The final stanza of the Mormon pioneer anthem “Come, Come Ye Saints” directly confronts the prospect of dying on the trail: “And should we die, before our journey’s through…”
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Pinpointing Utah Highway Hotspots on the Road to Zero Fatalities
Three BYU researchers are behind the wheel of a new effort to help the Utah Department of Transportation come closer to the goal of zero fatalities on Utah highways.
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The Teams That Would Bring the Biggest Final Four Ratings
Cinderella teams bust a lot of brackets, but they are a boon to Madison Avenue.
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Weather is Elementary, My Dear Reader
Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, was also an expert statistician. At least, that’s what recent lecturer and statistician Dr. Douglas W. Nychka claims.
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NBA Drafts BYU’s Moneyballers
In the movie “Moneyball,” Brad Pitt is cast as the man who revolutionized professional baseball with modern statistical analysis.
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Cracking the Case of the Bad Bottles
Mystery novels and research papers aren’t all that different.
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Market Madness: Cinderellas Boost Ratings More than National Powerhouses
Most pro basketball fans would assume that TV executives want to see teams from the largest markets go the furthest in the playoffs. But in college basketball, however, the most fans tune in for teams they probably hadn’t heard of a month ago.
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