Statistical Ideas: Citations

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Editorial Board in American Statistical Association
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=uspp20

NBER paper: Disentangling the Channels of the 2007-2009 Recession

http://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/papers/Stock_Watson_Disentangling_May_2012.pdf

Well featured and shared citations from The New York Times, and CNBC, "a very wonky and provocative blog" and "the view of an expert statistician". One was the most read and shared articles from the Sunday paper.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/your-money/a-great-ride-but-reality-is-returning.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/your-money/when-the-frost-is-on-the-pumpkin-and-often-on-stocks.html

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101035021

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/business/the-oracle-of-omaha-lately-looking-a-bit-ordinary.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/your-money/heads-or-tails-either-way-you-might-beat-a-stock-picker.html

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101560252

http://time.com/52574/how-to-tell-if-youre-an-alpha

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/your-money/warren-buffetts-awesome-feat-at-berkshire-hathaway-revisited.html

In the Financial Times
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/15/2126464

Couple top articles in my alma mater (Harvard's Department of Statistics)
http://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/invitation

Proper notes for my Nature article critique, by American Banker, RealClear and Technology news (both of which Nature itself cites), and The New York Times' columnist
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/morning-scan-banks-fined-for-fighting-over-toys-medical-bill-woes-1071637-1.html
https://twitter.com/DQuenqua/status/544877333333942272
http://www.realclearscience.com/2015/01/06/are_bankers_dishonest_a_rebuttal
http://www.technology.org/2014/12/19/

In The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/

Accepted in a leading Society of Actuaries annual print publication, including a rare link to our external web portal and recognition of an individual's book (Statistics Topics).

Dollar Cost Averaging Risk

For a week, the top article in Pensions&Investments, a bi-weekly publication for leading pension and endowment advisors
http://www.pionline.com/article/20150424/ONLINE/150429908/the-puzzle-in-active-investing
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/04/

Accepted as first and Feature Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Q4 print publication (a thousand LinkedIn likes within first 24 hours). Two top 20 most read and downloaded. Plus other citations, including global publisher John Wiley, and NPR, and now contributor to CFA where first article was featured for a week and >100 shares including cable news
Lesser-Hedged Portfolio
No winners with high-fee funds (also shared by NPR radio)
CFA Private Wealth

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2014/08/29/weekend-reads-for-finance-pros

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2014/07/11/weekend-reads-for-finance-pros

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2014/04/04/weekend-reads-for-finance-pros

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2014/03/07/weekend-reads-for-finance-pros

http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2014/02/21/weekend-reads-for-finance-pros

https://twitter.com/CFA_CH/status/637985571533639680
https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2015/12/21/the-benefits-and-risks-of-target-date-funds-tdfs/ (plus 2 of 4 tweets: here, and here)
https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2016/03/23/mind-the-gap-wall-street-forecasts-and-ytd-returns/
https://twitter.com/CFAinstitute/status/715439780797030400

In annual year-of-statistics publication sponsored by American Statistical Association, and other citations from same

http://www.statistics2013.org/2013/12/05/statistics-for-the-next-100-years/

http://community.amstat.org/2014/10/24/statisticians-contribute-to-work-on-ebola-transmission

A Top 10 article for 2014, in Significance (joint publication of American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society), their chief editor Tarran, and Wiley

https://twitter.com/WileyNews/statuses/484625165717090304

http://www.statslife.org.uk/significance/1986-our-top-ten-most-read-of-2014
http://www.statslife.org.uk/significance/1798-the-birthday-problem

An opinion article from the Royal Statistical Society, and twitter from Oxford Statistics Department

http://www.statslife.org.uk/opinion

https://twitter.com/OxfordStats/status/460756720936308736

Cited by Tom Keene, and Businessweek print magazine, "superb and adult research from Salil Mehta" and other interviews later in same magazine

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-08/go-to-cash

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-18/as-prudential-takes-over-corporate-pensions-risks-are-unclear#p2

Instead of TV, opted for a single nice radio appearance with Bloomberg's Betty Liu to discuss recent research themes (forward to 8 minutes). [In the Loop, At the Half: Apr. 8, 2014] "this piece of research you published has gotten a lot of attention"

http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/vxRkenwECAKc.mp3

Bloomberg's Chart of the Day story and news

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-08-21/shiller-p-e-shows-confidence-in-profit-outlook-chart-of-the-day

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-21/the-stock-market-s-missing-ingredient

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-22/your-weekend-reading-on-the-cape

Leading spot and most read on some of these sorts of best-of news reads by Bloomberg columnist Ritholtz (e.g., RealClearMarkets and here , StreetEYE)

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-03-24/ritholtz-s-reads-tesla-wine-and-the-nfl
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-08

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-05

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-05

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-20

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-03

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-02
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-04
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-14/ritholtz-s-reads-apple-watch-set-to-beat-iphone
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-16/ritholtz-s-reads-rethinking-retirement-rules

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/04/
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-25/searching-for-volatility-in-all-the-wrong-places
https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/554765025274236928
https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/621384043662323712
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-24/ritholtz-s-reads-don-t-blame-the-fed-for-stock-markets
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-31/ritholtz-s-reads-25-most-promising-jobs-for-millennials
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-01/ritholtz-s-reads-beware-stories-of-the-death-cross
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-08/don-t-trust-the-market-s-big-up-days (also shared by Barron's chief editor)
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-05/ritholtz-s-reads-why-china-fell-so-much
https://mobile.twitter.com/StreetEYE/status/691346661809979394
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-19/ritholtz-s-reads-sell-offs-and-recessions

The Quote of the Day, Chart of the Day, top link in, and top book bought for 4 straight months from Abnormal Returns and tweeted by Columbia Press

http://abnormalreturns.com/wednesday-links-stationary-over-time/

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBizPub/status/506587126352588802

http://abnormalreturns.com/what-books-abnormal-returns-readers-purchased-september-2014
http://abnormalreturns.com/2015/06/23/tuesday-links-a-lonely-proposition/

http://abnormalreturns.com/2015/07/11/saturday-links-big-sleep-data

http://abnormalreturns.com/2016/02/02/tuesday-links-how-hft-makes-money/
https://abnormalreturns.com/2016/04/12/tuesday-links-guaranteeing-mediocrity/

Academic research published in arXiv, SSRN, and RePEc

http://arxiv.org/find/stat/1/au:+Mehta_S/0/1/0/all/0/1

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2245916

http://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=salil+mehta

Most read cover story, multiple Call of the Day, Quote of the Day, and sample citations in The Wall Street Journal's MW, "Statistician sparks debate", "there are many useful observations in Mehta’s analysis", "why isn’t Georgetown professor Salil Mehta worried? ... read his hefty number-crunching exercise" and "...Salil Mehta is getting back in the game."

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2014/04/07/has-warren-buffett-really-lost-his-mojo-statistician-sparks-debate/

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/need-to-know/2014/08/05

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/need-to-know/2013/08/29

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/need-to-know/2014/09/02
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-the-reasons-to-sell-this-market-are-enough-to-draw-a-guy-in

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-watch-distracts-from-this-troubling-stock-market-chart
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-stock-market-is-calm-too-calm-2015-05-22
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/investors-are-better-off-flipping-a-coin-than-following-wall-street-pros-data-shows-2016-01-20

Sample citation in Forbes, "statistician Salil Mehta who found ... record of beating the market is exceptionally rare"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmoore/2014/08/14/306/

Fed selected blog research aggregator

http://econacademics.org/blogs/statisticalideas.html

In news funded by a European development bank, "Excellent blog on financial analysis & investments"

http://blackdigits.com.mt/stories

Cited by Fidelity

http://www.fidelity.mobi/fiw/GetNewsDetail;jsessionid

Complimented as "a great deep dive" and for "enthusiasts" by Lindzon, founder of StockTwits

https://twitter.com/StockTwits/status/498092095132147713
https://twitter.com/StockTwits/status/574210415585972224
https://twitter.com/howardlindzon/status/609704766483075072

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-31/how-unequal-your-state

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/did-grinch-steal-rally-peek-bs-behind-big-data-predictions

Cited by Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution (and shared by researched head of Oxfam)
https://twitter.com/MargRev/status/565060245202817024

#1 for a month on reddit "demographics"
http://www.reddit.com/r/Demographics/

Cited in Morningstar

http://www.morningstar.com/news/market-watch/TDJNMW_20150522144/
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/SubmissionsArticle.aspx?submissionid=180156.xml

Cited by Barron's
http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2013/05/24/weekend-reading

Guest contributor on The Big Picture (shared as "wonky ... worthwhile" by Barron's columnist Levisohn), some articles with >100 shares. First guest blog of 2016.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/01/as-goes-early-january-so-goes-nothing/

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/02/momentum-vs-mean-reversion/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/05/a-face-in-numbers-microsoft-google-big-data/

https://twitter.com/ben_levisohn/status/571714319584501760
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/06/fine-when-you-ignore-history/
https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/621384043662323712
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/thinking-about-market-risk/

http://ritholtz.com/2015/11/isils-psychotic-ambitions/

http://www.ritholtz.com/2015/12/rate-rise-amid-pandemonium-2/

http://ritholtz.com/2016/01/damaged-terror-alert-system/