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Meet the BYU student helping the Texas Rangers save runs and win big

June 14, 2024 12:44 PM
Will Melville was sweating. It was the first game in which the Rangers were introducing an updated outfield defensive positioning strategy, largely based on Melville’s research as a PhD student at BYU.

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Running Experts: You’ve Already Hit Your Stride

July 31, 2017 09:52 AM
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

July 21, 2016 02:33 PM
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

June 08, 2016 01:42 PM
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

April 27, 2016 10:17 AM
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

March 25, 2016 11:10 AM
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

March 12, 2016 12:02 PM
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

August 07, 2015 12:59 PM
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

June 05, 2015 09:17 AM
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

May 19, 2015 09:59 AM
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

November 26, 2014 02:31 PM
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

November 11, 2014 12:27 PM
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

July 15, 2014 04:40 PM
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

April 24, 2014 04:43 PM
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

March 25, 2014 04:47 PM
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

November 14, 2013 01:50 PM
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

September 26, 2013 12:55 PM
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

August 08, 2013 03:58 PM
Mystery novels and research papers aren’t all that different.
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