Presidents of Affiliate Societies Voice Concerns

The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies ( COPSS )

Preface The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through a subcontract with Yale New is supporting a committee appointed by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to address statistical issues identified by the CMS and stakeholders about CMS's approach to mod-eling hospital quality based on outcomes. In the spring of 2011, with the direct support of YN-HHSC/CO...

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

Become a Sloan Affiliate

Become a Sloan Affiliate

This paper explores the robustness of materials selection decisions when using various life-cycle assessment methods. Improving the environmental performance of vehicles is a topic of growing concern met by today’s designer. One approach to this goal is through vehicle mass reduction, enabled through the implementation of a growing array of material candidates. While LCA methods are available t...

Underwriting the presidents.

The United States has had 43 presidents. We examined whether they survive significantly longer or shorter than their contemporaries. We found that survival was better for presidents elected in the 1789-1841 and 1933-2001 periods (SMRs of 0.7 and 0.6, respectively), but worse for those elected in 1845-1929 (SMR = 2.9). We also found increased mortality during the years lived in office (SMR = 1.4...