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  • 1.  ASA GivesBack Announces the Winners of the Haiku/Meme Challenge

    Posted 9 days ago

    Thank you to everyone who participated in the ASA GivesBack Haiku/Meme challenge!  Our team loved seeing the creativity of our community shine!  And congratulations to the winners, listed below along with their submissions!

    Meme Category:

    1st Place: Mark Ramos 

    Haiku Category:
    Graduate level: 
    1st Place: Alyssa Columbus 

    I'm mostly certain 

    this joke will land just about - 

    there. Give or take some.

    Professional:

    1st Place: Larry Lesser

    Statisticians now

    must be ready to deal with

    data that's censored.

    2nd Place: Charlie Smith

    Nighttime thunderstorms

    Pets and children crowd my bed

    Equal sample sizes

    3rd Place: Benjamin Leinwand

    my model has fit

    the data extremely well

    a little too well



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    Caroline Birdrow
    Biostatistician
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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  • 2.  RE: ASA GivesBack Announces the Winners of the Haiku/Meme Challenge

    Posted 8 days ago

    Very Nice:

    When teaching confidence intervals, this gets your point across. Use Football in the Fall and basketball in the spring:

    Friday:  IBM projects that The University of Florida has a 20% chance of winning.

    Monday: The result is in and Florida lost. There is nothing random now.  But you can say my procedure had a 95% chance of trapping the true value.

    After the experiment, our confidence interval t either contains the parameter or not. We do not know which but the truth now k=knows with certainty. 

    Simulations can also help.

    Best,

    Jon



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    Jonathan Shuster
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