11/09/2023
By Hsien-Yuan Hsu
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 15
Time: Noon to 1 p.m.
Location: Coburn Hall 275
Speaker: JongSoo Lee
Topic: Some statistical analyses of head impacts and concussion in high school sports
Abstract:
In this talk, we present the statistical results and challenges from the projects undertaken at Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science, University of Hawaii. The projects encompass various aspects of high school and college athlete health, but the focus will be on head impacts and concussion in high school football. The main project consists of analyzing the head impacts of football players between the athletes who adhered to a training intervention - the helmetless tackling - and the athletes who did not. Through thoughtful planning and careful analyses, we demonstrate that the helmetless tackling show reduction in head impacts that affect the concussion in athletes. We also discuss the statistical analyses conducted from secondary aims and peripheral projects.
Bio:
JongSoo Lee is an Associate Professor at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UMass Lowell. Lee’s research focuses on applied statistics, including applications to health, medicine, engineering/sciences; his statistical methodology interests include functional/high-dimensional data analysis, statistical learning, among others.