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Monthly Archive January, 2013

Football geeks: your 10,705 field goals are ready

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We looked at NFL punts before on Decision Science News. That’s old news. Field goals are the new hotness, and Super Bowl Sunday is coming up, so let’s look at a kicker’s chances.

We’ve taken the same data set and looked at a kicker’s chances of getting the ball through the uprights depending on the yard line the kick is from. The result is above.

SPUDM 2013, August 18-22, 2013, Barcelona

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The European Association for Decision Making invites you to attend its next biannual
24th Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference (SPUDM
24), which will be held at IESE Business School – University of Navarra in Barcelona,
Spain, on August 18-22, 2013.

Submissions of paper abstracts, poster abstracts, and proposals for workshops are
invited on any topic in basic and applied judgment and decision making research.

Deadline for all submissions is March 8, 2013.

Decision: a new journal about to launch

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Good news for Judgment and Decision Making researchers, a new APA journal entitled Decision is getting ready to launch. Be on the look out for its web site in the next weeks. Here are some details.

Every NFL punt since 2002

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The site reddit told us about data on every single NFL (U.S. National Football League) play since 2002. We read it in and did an analysis of punting. The results are beautiful.

51st Edwards Bayesian Research Conference February 14-16, 2013

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In this conference, investigators present topics that might be empirical or theoretical, involving questions that may be basic or applied, and studying theories that may be normative or descriptive. Topics deal with judgment and decision theory, basic and applied, either normative or descriptive, and are NOT limited to Bayes theorem or Bayesian statistics.