John M. Chambers
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State Borders and Public Health Open
I contribute to the debates on optimal jurisdiction size and federalism through a quasi-natural experiment in the context of US food safety. State borders create fissures in information networks and authority hierarchies. Accordingly, I us…
State Borders and Public Health Open
I contribute to the debates on optimal jurisdiction size and federalism through a quasi-natural experiment in the context of US food safety. State borders create fissures in information networks and authority hierarchies. Accordingly, I us…
Data Science in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic Open
The exceptional shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about an equally exceptional scientific response, over a wide range of disciplines and with a spirit of collaboration and mutual support.This issue of Statistical Science contains …
Data, Science, and Global Disasters Open
The spread and impact of COVID-19 have disrupted human activities and energized a response of scientific activity on a remarkable, nearly unprecedented scale. This has somewhat distracted attention from a broad range of less immediate but …
S, R, and data science Open
Data science is increasingly important and challenging. It requires computational tools and programming environments that handle big data and difficult computations, while supporting creative, high-quality analysis. The R language and rela…
Book Review: White, Michael D. and Fradella, Henry F., Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic. Open
Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic is an in-depth analysis of the police practice known as “Stop, Question, Frisk (SQF),” commonly referred to as the Terry stop, stemming from the landmark 1968 U.S. Suprem…