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Ryan McShane

Former Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics

Amherst College

Biography

Ryan McShane is formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics at Amherst College. His research interests include intransitivity in paired comparisons, sports analytics, nonparametric methods, and interdisciplinary research.

Interests

  • Intransitivity in Paired Comparisons
  • Sports Analytics
  • Nonparametric Methods

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistical Science, 2019

    Southern Methodist University

  • M.S. in Statistical Science, 2016

    Southern Methodist University

  • M.S. in Applied Statistics, 2013

    The University of Texas at San Antonio

  • B.S. in Mathematics, 2009

    St. Mary's University (Texas)

Selected Talks

Scissors beats Rock (and other failures of Transitive Models using Paired Comparisons)

If the Utah Jazz beat the Portland Trailblazers and the Trailblazers beat the Denver Nuggets, does that mean that the Jazz are better …
Aug 4, 2022 12:00 PM Fairfax, VA
Slides

An Integrative Learning Experience with Qwixx: Play, Probability, Partnership, Planning, and Programming

Undergraduate students with data science and modeling prerequisites take an elective upper-level data science course centered on …
Aug 12, 2021 10:00 AM Virtual
Slides Video Session Details

Using a Large GPS Dataset to Enhance Survey Matching

NOAA Fisheries is the United States’ federal steward of their nation’s ocean resources. To this end, they currently collect data on …

Oct 26, 2018 11:30 AM Barcelona, Spain
Slides Session Details

CRSP: Modeling Stochastically Intransitive Relationships between NBA Teams

If the Warriors beat the Rockets and the Rockets beat the Spurs, does that mean that the Warriors are better than the Spurs? …

Aug 3, 2018 1:20 PM Vancouver, Canada

CRSP: Modeling Stochastically Intransitive Relationships between NBA Teams

If the Warriors beat the Rockets and the Rockets beat the Spurs, does that mean that the Warriors are better than the Spurs? …

Aug 2, 2018 10:05 AM Vancouver, Canada
Session Details

Publications

Validating Matches of Electronically Reported Fishing Trips to Investigate Matching Error

Recently, researchers have developed methods for combining probability samples and non-probability samples. In recreational fisheries …
Source Document DOI

Number of $n$-node tournaments that have exactly $d$ circular triads

$d = 0$ $d = 1$ $d = 2$ $d = 3$ $d = 4$ $d = 5$

The Impact of Nonsampling Errors on Estimators of Catch from Electronic Reporting Systems

The National Marine Fisheries Service is the agency charged with estimating the number of fish removed from US oceans by recreational …
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Modeling Stochastically Intransitive Relationships in Paired Comparison Data

If the Warriors beat the Rockets and the Rockets beat the Spurs, does that mean that the Warriors are better than the Spurs? …
Source Document

R Packages

posterdownLaTeX

posterdownLaTeX is a package to create LaTeX-based R Markdown posters

Skills (Σ=1)

R and SAS

25%

Probability

15%

Statistics

25%

Intransitivity

25%

Basketball Analytics

10%