Chance Lecture Downloads

If you want to view one of the Chance Lectures locally, for example, the video called "Risky Business", click on "Risky Business" and a compressed folder called HAMMON.zip will be downloaded. Decompressed this will produce a folder called HAMMON. Then click on the file "HAMMON.rm" in this folder and the video will start.

After the first slide turns up you will need to resize its window and position it so that both the slide and the video are visible.

2000 Chance Lecture Series

• Risky Business
  Robert Hamman
  Founder, SCA Promotions, Inc.
  
• Benford's Law
  It's a Secret Law of Numbers
  (Increasingly Being Used by Auditors)
  Mark Nigrini
  Cox School of Business
  
• Coincidence, Bad Science, and Other Pitfalls
  in the Regulation of Medical Products
  Susan Ellenberg
  Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
  Food and Drug Administration
  
• Quantifying the Nature-Nurture Debate
  Matthew McGue
  Department of Psychology
  University of Minnesota
  
• Medical Research - Study Results vs. Study Conclusions
  A Cautionary Guide
  Jonas H. Ellenberg
  Vice President and Senior Statistician, Westat
  
• Probability by Surprise:
  Teaching with Paradoxes and Animations
  Susan Holmes
  Statistics Department, Stanford University
  
• How Many Hardcore Drug Users?
  Counting Hard to Reach Populations
  Bill Rhodes
  Principal Scientist and Fellow
  ABT Associates, Inc.

1997 and 1988 Chance Lecture Series

• The Risk to Civilization from Extraterrestrial Objects
   Clark Chapman
   Southwest Research Institute
• Epidemiology in Every-day Inference
   John Baron
   Dartmouth Medical School
• Streaks in Sports
   Tom Gilovich
   Cornell University
• Statistical Issues in Census 2000
   David Freedman
   University of California Berkeley
   Based on Technical Report 537. See also Technical Report 484.
  
• Approaches and Social Aspects of Viaticals
   Cindi McCary
   American Viatical Testing Co.
• Once Upon a Number -- Mathematics and Narrative
   John Paulos
   Temple University
• Hedge funds and Gambling in the Capital Markets
   Jeff Norman
   ZAIS Group
• Risk in Everyday Life
   Arnold Barnett
   MIT
• National Weather Forecasting
   Daniel Wilks
   Cornell University
• Local Weather Forecasting
   Mark Breen
   Fairbanks Museum
• Stock Market Valuation
   Sheri Aggarwal
   Dartmouth College
• Probability and Statistics in Gaming
   Olaf Vancura
   Harvard University
• Polls
   David Moore
   Gallup Organization
• DNA Fingerprinting in the Courts
   Bruce Weir
   North Carolina State University
• Statistical Issues in ESP Research
   Ray Hyman
   University of Oregon
• Statistics in Sports
   Hal Stern
   Iowa State University
• Census 2000
   Tommy Wright
   Bureau of the Census

Other Chance Lectures

• How to Dispay Data Badly
  Howard Wainer
  Educational Service.
  
• The Bible Codes
  Maya-Bar Hillel
  Hebrew University.
• Aspirin and Prevention of Heart Disease
   John Baron
   Dartmouth Medical School
• Risk and Revolution:
  Stephen Stigler
  University of Chicago
  Reese Prosser Lecture
  Dartmouth College Fall 2002
  
• Huygens Justifies the Definition
  of Expected Value
  Stephen Stigler
  University of Chicago
  A lecture given in the Dartmouth
  Fall 2002 Chance Course
  
• To Sample or Not to Sample?
  Why is That the Question for Census 2000?
  Stephen Fienberg
  Carnegie Mellon University
• Hidden Codes in Chance Magazine
  Stephen Samuels
  Purdue University
  
• Racial Profiling
  Richard Fernandez
  Northern Arizona University
  A lecture given in the Dartmouth Fall 2002 Chance Course
• DNA and Probability
  Jonathan J. Koehler University of Texas
• The Riemann Hypothesis
  Jeffrey Vaaler
  Univesity of Texas Austin
  A lecture given in the University of Texas Millenium Lecture Series
  based on the seven Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems.
• Finite Mathematics, Dartmouth College 1983
   John G. Kemeny
   Based on the original Finite Math book
• A Dartmouth Chance Course
  Starring Peter Doyle
  Produced by Bob Drake and Wendy Conquest
• Dartmouth Chance class 1994
   Freeman Dyson
   Institute of Advanced Study
  
• The Case Against the Bible Codes
  Barry Simon: California Institute of Technology
  Rabbi Adlerstein: Director: Jewish Studies Institute
• WNNE News Commentary on PowerBall lottery
  
• Behavioral Finance and Market Psychology
  Terrance Odean
  Haas School of Business,
  University of California, Berkeley
• The video tape series "Against All Odds" is part of the
  Annenberg CPB projects. It was made under the direction
  of David Moore. The series has twenty-six half hour vide
  presentations These videos includes discussion of basic
  statistical concepts and also case studies of the use of
  statistics in the real world. We used these case studies
  ragularly in our Chance course. They can be freely downloaded
  here
  You can obtain The "Time-Subject Index for "Against All Odds" here