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...Washington Post.Mosteller also worked with Professor David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago to determine who had written 12 of the 57 Federalist Papers by calculating sentence length and the frequency of certain words. They eventually concluded that James Madison had written them.While Mosteller was a remarkable statistician, his daughter said he would possibly be remembered most for his role as a teacher and the influence he had on his students, because “he made classroom teaching [and] mentoring students a priority.” “It seemed as though everywhere he traveled, he?...
...DIED. Frederick Mosteller, 89, preeminent statistician and founding chairman of Harvard University's statistics department who popularized the application of statistical data to politics and sports; in Falls Church, Virginia. Mosteller first showed his knack for laws of probability as a teenager, while working on a road crew that played poker during rain delays. In 1952, after mulling over the St. Louis Cardinals' 1946 World Series win over the Boston Red Sox, he published the first known academic paper on baseball statistics. A stronger team on paper would often lose to a weaker team, he proved, simply because of chance...
DIED. Frederick Mosteller, 89, pre-eminent statistician and founding chairman of Harvard University's statistics department who popularized the application of statistical data to fields from politics to sports; in Falls Church, Va. Mosteller first showed his knack for laws of probability as a teenager, while working on a road crew that played poker during rain delays. In 1952, after mulling over the St. Louis Cardinals' 1946 World Series win over the Boston Red Sox, he published the first known academic paper on baseball statistics. A stronger team on paper would often lose to a weaker team, he proved, simply...
...BAGS The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's boast that inflatable air bags have saved nearly 14,000 lives since 1998, when they were required in all new cars, was challenged by a University of Georgia statistician. By analyzing a random sample of all accidents (rather than just those in which a death occurred), she found that air bags were actually associated with a slightly higher chance of death in an accident. Some of that discrepancy may be attributed to the greater risk of air-bag injuries to children who ride--against all advice--in the front seat...
...however, one key affinity may indicate that the two economists are more alike than different. Both are passionate about baseball, crediting the game with fostering their love of statistics. Bernanke, who as a youth developed a dice-based baseball game, loves the work of Bill James, the baseball statistician known for focusing on obscure data to evaluate talent. Both have adopted the Washington Nationals. But their deep loyalties reach beyond the Beltway--to two teams with frustrating histories. Greenspan is a New York Mets fan; Bernanke pulls for the Boston Red Sox. No doubt, more frustrations await Bernanke...