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Ratings Central: Accurate, Automated, Bayesian Table Tennis Ratings for Clubs, Leagues, Tournaments, and Organizations: NESSIS (New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports), September 24, 2011. Program, Abstract, Presentations, Photos, Videos.
Ratings Central: Accurate, Automated, Bayesian Table Tennis Ratings for Clubs, Leagues, Tournaments, and Organizations: Joint Statistical Meetings, July 30–August 4, 2011. Session, Abstract.
New Table-Tennis Rating System: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician), 2001, vol. 50, part 2, pp. 191-208.
NÖTTV Interview with David Marcus: June 17, 2010.
Does it Matter Who Serves First?: Is there an actual (not psychological) advantage to serving first in table tennis as there is in some sports?
Comparison of 11-Point and 21-Point Match Formats: Which 11-point-game match formats correspond to which 21-point-game match formats?
Giving Byes to Top Seeds Is Unfair: The ITTF rule on how to place byes in a single-elimination event can favor a lower-seeded player over a higher-seeded player.
Fundamental Table Tennis Geometry: A discussion of basic footwork.
Dispensing with the Philosophical Baggage of Traditional Quantum Mechanics: Letter to the Editor, SIAM News, vol. 36, no. 4, May 2003, p. 6.
Letter to the Editor on Bell’s Theorem and the Demise of Local Reality by Stephen McAdam: The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 111, no. 5, May 2004, pp. 456–457.
Prisoner’s Dilemma: Letter to the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 51, no. 7, August 2004, p. 735.

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Devil to Play: Denver Tennis Club’s 4.5 men’s team.
What Is the Correct Way to Seed a Knockout Tournament?: The American Mathematical Monthly, February 2000.
The Nurturing Parent: 6 Ways to Make Your Child Happy (and why they work).
When Failure is Not an Option: Some organizations seem to have purged “human error”, operating highly complex and hazardous technological systems essentially without mistakes. How do they do it? Technology Review, July 1997.

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction. —Leo Tolstoy

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