Despite higher monthly benefits for those who delay, many people still claim Social Security
retirement benefits at age 62, the earliest age of eligibility. This study uses data from the …

Arguably one of the greatest fascinations of tournament chess players and competitors of
other games is the measurement of playing strength. The Elo rating system, developed by …

Every player in the Glicko-2 system has a rating, r, a rating deviation, RD, and a rating volatility
σ. The volatility measure indicates the degree of expected fluctuation in a player’s rating. …

The past three decades have seen the widespread introduction of both state-level and local-level
tax and expenditure limits (TELs). Over the same time period, 37 states have legalized …

* Charles Ford, Senior Analyst, Mark Glickman, Senior Economist, and Charlie Jeszeck,
Assistant Director, Education Workforce and Income Security Issues, US Government …

Background Lung nodules caused by mycobacteria can resemble lung cancer on chest
imaging. The advent of lung cancer screening with low-dose Computed Tomography is …

Power system generators are interconnected in a distributed network to allow sharing of
power. If one of the generators cannot meet the power demand, spare power is diverted from …

Objectives Procedures for controlling the false positive rate when performing many hypothesis
tests are commonplace in health and medical studies. Such procedures, most notably the …

… ), who used empirical Bayes methods, or Glickman (1993), who used Markov chain Monte
… competes against m opponents, playing nj games against opponent j, where j 1, . . ., m. We …

The decisions that retiring workers make about how and when to draw down their pension
plan assets determine in part whether they will have income that lasts throughout retirement. …