{"title":"Invariant measures of disagreement with stochastic dominance*","authors":"E. del Barrio, J.A. Cuesta-Albertos, C. Matrán","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2554737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2554737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpretable Model Summaries Using the Wasserstein Distance","authors":"Eric Dunipace, Lorenzo Trippa","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2551223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2551223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144930899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Major League Baseball’s Ban on Infield Shifts: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis","authors":"Lee Kennedy-Shaffer","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2552283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2552283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144910964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON CONSISTENT IMPUTATION OF MISSING PREDICTORS IN LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS","authors":"David Oakes","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2551215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2551215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144900177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of Regression for Categorical Outcomes Using R.","authors":"Maria Tackett","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2551214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2551214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144900179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American StatisticianPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2448430
Eugene Demidenko
{"title":"Laplace's law of succession estimator and M-statistics.","authors":"Eugene Demidenko","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2024.2448430","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00031305.2024.2448430","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The classic formula for estimating the binomial probability as the proportion of successes contradicts common sense for extreme probabilities when the event never occurs or occurs every time. Laplace's law of succession estimator, one of the first applications of Bayesian statistics, has been around for over 250 years and resolves the paradoxes, although rarely discussed in modern statistics texts. This work aims to introduce a new theory for exact optimal statistical inference using Laplace's law of succession estimator as a motivating example. We prove that this estimator may be viewed from a different theoretical perspective as the limit point of the short confidence interval on the double-log scale when the confidence level approaches zero. This motivating example paves the road to the definition of an estimator as the inflection point on the cumulative distribution function as a function of the parameter given the observed statistic. This estimator has the maximum infinitesimal probability of the coverage of the unknown parameter and, therefore, is called the maximum concentration (MC) estimator as a part of a more general M-statistics theory. The new theory is illustrated with exact optimal confidence intervals for the normal standard deviation and the respective MC estimators.</p>","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"79 3","pages":"311-319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12333967/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American StatisticianPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2025.2453674
Elizabeth C Chase, Philip S Boonstra, Jeremy M G Taylor
{"title":"A Multiple Imputation Approach for the Cumulative Incidence, with Implications for Variance Estimation.","authors":"Elizabeth C Chase, Philip S Boonstra, Jeremy M G Taylor","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2453674","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2453674","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present an alternative approach to estimating the cumulative incidence function that uses non-parametric multiple imputation to reduce the problem to that of estimating a binomial proportion. In the standard competing risks setting, we show mathematically and empirically that our imputation-based estimator is equivalent to the Aalen-Johansen estimator of the cumulative incidence given a sufficient number of imputations. However, our approach allows for the use of a wider variety of methods for the analysis of binary outcomes, including preferred options for uncertainty estimation. While we focus on the cumulative incidence function, the multiple imputation approach likely extends to more complex problems in competing risks.</p>","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"79 3","pages":"291-301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12360614/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144884242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards explainable data and sports analytics: A case study on pass completion prediction in American Football","authors":"Anton Augustine, Gabe P Redding, Steven Le Moan","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2025.2541085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2025.2541085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144755733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}