[ABE-L] Fwd: Explaining Bayes Better | Stats + (Short) Stories #65 | Guest: Kerrie Mengersen AND announcing the first Stats+Stories Contest!

[Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva]

Caros redistas,

Talvez a matéria anexada possa interessar. Há dois temas: divulgar a série
'Stats and Stories', que neste último episódio entrevistou Kerrie
Mengersen, e também uma competição cujos detalhes são fornecidos na
mensagem.

A série Stats and Stories alcançou 65 episódios, e contém uma coleção
bastante rica de entrevistas que podem servir de recursos instrucionais
para enriquecer o ensino e a aprendizagem da Estatística.

Saudações, Pedro.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Bailer, A. John <baileraj em miamioh.edu>
Date: sex, 7 de set de 2018 às 09:50
Subject: Explaining Bayes Better | Stats + (Short) Stories #65 | Guest:
Kerrie Mengersen AND announcing the first Stats+Stories Contest!
To:
Cc: Pennington, Rosemary <penninrm em miamioh.edu>, Campbell, Richard <
campber em miamioh.edu>, Steven Beitzel <beitzese em miamioh.edu>, Ringo Jones <
jonesre3 em miamioh.edu>, Paula Fogt <fogtpd em miamioh.edu>, Moore, Guy R. Mr. <
mooregr em miamioh.edu>, Jason Barone <baronejb em miamioh.edu>, Charles Blades <
bladesch em miamioh.edu>


Greetings,
   Stats+ Short Stories #65:  "Explaining Bayes Better" is now
available. Kerrie
Mengersen (@KerrieMengersen),  Distinguished Professor at the Queensland
University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and
past-President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
<http://www.cas.miamioh.edu/statsandstories/archives54.html>, describes the
application of remote sensing to studies of agriculture, poverty, and
treatments for Parkinson’s disease. In addition, the first Stats+Stories
contest, #BetterBayes, is described.  Contest details are:

*Challenge: * Explain Bayes to a non-technical audience

*Entries:*  A story headline and the lede (or lead) sentence for such a
story.  The headline will be 6 words or less and the lead is a sentence of
less than 30 words. If someone is grazing a news story, then they can get
what they need from the headline and the lede sentence if they aren’t going
to finish reading the story.  The reflects everything you need to know, the
nuts and bolts, the very basics of the story.

*Submitting your entry:*  Go to the Stats+Stories contest entry page
<https://statsandstories.net/betterbayes>

*Deadline for Entries: * 06 October 2018.  Winners to be announced a few
weeks later.

*Judges:*  A Bayesian statistician and a journalist

*Prize: * The adoration of your friend AND a year subscription to the
International Society for Bayesian Analysis.  In addition, you'll have a
chance to chat with the judges and the Stats+Stories team on a future
episode of Stats+Stories.

Enter now and encourage your friends, colleagues, students, teachers to do
the same!


  To listen now, go directly to the episode
<https://statsandstories.net/health1/2018/9/6/explaining-bayes-better-stats-short-stories-episode-65>.
please visit www.statsandstories.net, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher
<https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stats-stories?refid=stpr>, Google Play or
Soundcloud. Please forward information about S+S and S+SS to any of your
colleagues or friends who might enjoy exploring the statistics behind the
stories and the stories behind the statistics.
   As always, comments and suggestions for future guests are welcome, and
you are invited to Tweet and to post comments and program ratings on Apple
Podcasts and Stitcher.

Thanks!
John (for the S+S team)



------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Bailer           baileraj em MiamiOH.edu       (+1) 513.529.7879
President-Elect     I <http://isi-web.org/>nternational Statistical
Institute <http://isi-web.org/> (ISI)

University Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA

Home page:         www.users.MiamiOH.edu/baileraj
Stats+Stories:      www.statsandstories.net
Stat. Dept. Ofc.:   513.529.7828
Twitter:                @statsandstories (Stats+Stories) and @john_bailer
(general)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



-- 
Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva
IBGE - Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas
IBGE - National School of Statistical Sciences
Phone: +55 21 21424957
-------------- Próxima Parte ----------
Um anexo em HTML foi limpo...
URL: <https://lists.ime.usp.br/archives/abe/attachments/20180912/f8f14f3e/attachment.html>