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A Randomized Study to Evaluate the Effect of a Nudge via Weekly E-mails on Students' Attitudes Toward Statistics by Taback, Nathan, Gibbs, Alison L.

“…Can a "nudge" toward engaging, fun, and useful material improve student attitudes toward statistics? We report on the results of a randomized study to assess…”
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On Choosing and Bounding Probability Metrics by Gibbs, Alison L., Su, Francis Edward

“…When studying convergence of measures, an important issue is the choice of probability metric. We provide a summary and some new results concerning bounds…”
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Bioactive oat β-glucan reduces LDL cholesterol in Caucasians and non-Caucasians by Wolever, Thomas M S, Gibbs, Alison L, Brand-Miller, Jennie, Duncan, Alison M, Hart, Valerie, Lamarche, Benoît, Tosh, Susan M, Duss, Ruedi

“…There is increasing global acceptance that viscous soluble fibers lower serum LDL cholesterol (LDL-C), but most evidence for this comes from studies in…”
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Fatigue and shift work by SHEN, JIANHUA, BOTLY, LEIGH C. P., CHUNG, SHARON A., GIBBS, ALISON L., SABANADZOVIC, SKENDER, SHAPIRO, COLIN M.

“…Summary Shift work is a ubiquitous phenomenon and its adverse effects on workers’ physical and mental health have been documented. In the sleep literature,…”
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Physicochemical properties of oat β-glucan influence its ability to reduce serum LDL cholesterol in humans: a randomized clinical trial by Wolever, Thomas MS, Tosh, Susan M, Gibbs, Alison L, Brand-Miller, Jennie, Duncan, Alison M, Hart, Valerie, Lamarche, Benoît, Thomson, Barbara A, Duss, Ruedi, Wood, Peter J

“…BACKGROUND: Consumption of 3 g oat β-glucan/d is considered sufficient to lower serum LDL cholesterol, but some studies have shown no effect. LDL cholesterol…”
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The Building Blocks of Statistical Education in the Data Science Ecosystem by Alison L. Gibbs, Nathan Taback

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Effect of vitamin D supplementation on oral glucose tolerance in individuals with low vitamin D status and increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes (EVIDENCE): A double‐blind, randomized, placebo‐controlled clinical trial by Moreira‐Lucas, Tracy S., Duncan, Alison M., Rabasa‐Lhoret, Rémi, Vieth, Reinhold, Gibbs, Alison L., Badawi, Alaa, Wolever, Thomas M. S.

“…Aims Low serum 25‐hydroxyvitamin‐D (25(OH)D) concentrations are associated with insulin resistance, β‐cell dysfunction and type 2 diabetes. We conducted a…”
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The Canadian Trial of Carbohydrates in Diabetes (CCD), a 1-y controlled trial of low-glycemic-index dietary carbohydrate in type 2 diabetes: no effect on glycated hemoglobin but reduction in C-reactive protein by Wolever, Thomas MS, Gibbs, Alison L, Mehling, Christine, Chiasson, Jean-Louis, Connelly, Philip W, Josse, Robert G, Leiter, Lawrence A, Maheux, Pierre, Rabasa-Lhoret, Remi, Rodger, N Wilson, Ryan, Edmond A

“…The optimal source and amount of dietary carbohydrate for managing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) are unknown. We aimed to compare the effects of altering the glycemic…”
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Promoting Modeling and Covariational Reasoning among Secondary School Students in the Context of Big Data by Gil, Einat, Gibbs, Alison L

“…In this study, we follow students' modeling and covariational reasoning in the context of learning about big data. A three-week unit was designed to allow 12th…”
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Computational skills by stealth in introductory data science teaching by Burr, Wesley, Chevalier, Fanny, Collins, Christopher, Gibbs, Alison L, Ng, Raymond, Wild, Chris J

“…In 2010, Nolan and Temple Lang proposed “integration of computing concepts into statistics curricula at all levels.” The unprecedented growth in data and…”
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Equivalent glycemic load (EGL): a method for quantifying the glycemic responses elicited by low carbohydrate foods by Wolever, Thomas M S, Gibbs, Alison L, Spolar, Matt, Hitchner, Elinor V, Heimowitz, Colette

“…Glycemic load (GL) is used to quantify the glycemic impact of high-carbohydrate (CHO) foods, but cannot be used for low-CHO foods. Therefore, we evaluated the…”
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Bioactive oat [beta]-glucan reduces LDL cholesterol in Caucasians and non-Caucasians by Wolever, Thomas MS, Gibbs, Alison L, Brand-Miller, Jennie, Duncan, Alison M, Hart, Valerie, Lamarche, Benoît, Tosh, Susan M, Duss, Ruedi

“…There is increasing global acceptance that viscous soluble fibers lower serum LDL cholesterol (LDL-C), but most evidence for this comes from studies in…”
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Discussion of case study 1 analyses by DEAN, C. B., GIBBS, Alison L., PARISH, Roberta

“…The two analyses incorporated similar features, but with different model formulations and variables; even so, they yielded similar major conclusions. Both…”
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Case study 1: The effects of climate on the growth of lodgepole pine by DEAN, C.B., GIBBS, Alison L., PARISH, Roberta

“…The goal of this case study was to examine how well-known climate variables, combined with estimated crown biomass, can predict wood accumulation in lodgepole…”
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Convergence in the Wasserstein Metric for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms with Applications to Image Restoration by Gibbs, Alison L.

“…In this paper, we show how the time for convergence to stationarity of a Markov chain can be assessed using the Wasserstein metric, rather than the usual…”
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Bounding the convergence time of the Gibbs sampler in Bayesian image restoration by Gibbs, Alison L.

“…This paper shows how coupling methodology can be used to give precise, a priori bounds on the convergence time of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for which…”
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The Evidence for Efficacy of HPV Vaccines: Investigations in Categorical Data Analysis by Gibbs, Alison L., Goossens, Emery T.

“…Recent approval of HPV vaccines and their widespread provision to young women provide an interesting context to gain experience with the application of…”
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On Choosing and Bounding Probability Metrics by Gibbs, Alison L., Su, Francis Edward

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Case studies in data analysis by Gibbs, Alison L., Keen, Kevin J., Wang, Liqun

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Case studies in data analysis by Keen, Kevin J, Wang, Liqun, Gibbs, Alison L

“…The following short papers are summaries of student contributions to the Case Studies in Data Analysis from the Statistical Society of Canada 2009 annual…”
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