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Legend: Washington State Convention Center = CC, Sheraton Seattle = S, Grand Hyatt = GH and The Conference Center = TCC
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562 Wed, 8/12/2015, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM CC-4B
SPEED: Topics in Statistics in Sports and Education, Part 2 — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistical Education , Section on Statistics in Sports
Chair(s): Catherine Crespi, UCLA
1: Major League Baseball Free Agent Fits: Examining Production Output Distributions Through Simulation Pamela Badian-Pessot, Smith College ; Daniel Aucoin, University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Austin Champagne, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2: The Winner of the 2014 Heisman Memorial Trophy Is . Jessica Sanders ; Tracy Morris, University of Central Oklahoma
3: Survive and Advariance Caitlin Phelps, North Carolina State University ; Nicholas Kapur, North Carolina State University ; Marschall Furman, North Carolina State University
4: Punt, Pass, or Kick? What the Numbers Say You Should Do Mary Bayles ; Ariel Webb, University of Central Oklahoma ; Yuting Wang Manley, University of Central Oklahoma ; Tracy Morris, University of Central Oklahoma
5: Ranking NCAA Football Teams Through Expected Points Zachary Knowlton ; Gilbert Fellingham, Brigham Young University
6: NFL Play Predictions William Burton, North Carolina State University ; Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University
7: The Quality of Pitches in Major League Baseball Philippa Swartz, Simon Fraser University ; Michael Grosskopf, Simon Fraser University ; Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University ; Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
8: Regression Hoochie Koo: Using Music to Reinforce Regression Concepts Steven Patch, The University of North Carolina at Asheville
9: The Relationship Between Verbal Reasoning Skills and Statistical Literacy in Undergraduate Students Elizabeth Johnson, George Mason University ; Diana Keosayian, Wilkes University
10: A Randomized Trial in a Massive Online Open Course Shows People Don't Know What a Statistically Significant Relationship Looks Like, but They Can Learn Aaron Fisher, The Johns Hopkins University ; G. Brooke Anderson, Colorado State University ; Roger Peng, The Johns Hopkins University ; Jeff Leek, The Johns Hopkins University
11: Reinforcing Experimental Design with Activities Paul Stephenson, Grand Valley State University ; Phyllis Curtiss, Grand Valley State University ; Mary Richardson, Grand Valley State University ; Diann Reischman, Grand Valley State University
13: Changing How Students Think About Statistics Paul Plummer, University of Central Missouri
14: Methods for Improving Student Success in Introductory Statistics Courses at Oregon State University Katie Jager, Oregon State University ; Juliann Moore, Oregon State University
16: Are Pie Charts Really So Bad? An Experiment on Data Visualization Michael Posner, Villanova University ; Joseph Reiter, Villanova University
17: Integrating Statistics Across Disciplines: A Secondary School Case Study Kyle Barriger, Castilleja School




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