TAS
papers should …be delightfully interesting
be practically useful
tell a story
be accessible to many "flavors" of statisticians
Some of my favorites
Delightfully interesting (TC)
You can Load a Die, But You Can’t Bias a Coin (Gelman and Nolan, 2002)
"The biased coin is the unicorn of probability theory—everybody has heard of it but it has never been spotted in the flesh."
Favorites (con’t)
Delightfully interesting (TC/G)
Is Human Height Bimodal? (Schilling, Watkins, and Watkins, 2002)
Not according to NHANES data under assumption of normality of heights for males and females
Favorites (con’t)
Practically useful (SC&G)
Let’s Practice What We Preach: Turning Tables into Graphs (Gelman, Pasarica, and Dodhia, 2002)
"We considered the motivation for each of the tables [in a recent JASA issue] and considered how they could be made into graphs, following the principles we have taught in our courses."
Favorites (con’t)
Tell a story (SP)
Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots in the 2000 Presidential Election in Politics (Wolter et. al., 2003)
Seek Whence: Answer Sequences and Their Consequences in Key-Balanced Multiple Choice Tests (Bar-Hillel and Attali, 2002)
Accessibility
Be on a familiar topic
Link your method to a familiar topic
The Mixture Approach for Simulating Bivariate Distributions with Specified Correlations (Michael and Schucany, 2002) (C&SG)
The Calculus of M-Estimation (Stefanski and Boos, 2002) (G)