Gary Smith (economist)

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  • Smith, Gary. (2015). Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Academic Press, second edition. ISBN   978-0-12-803459-0
  • Smith, Gary. (2014). Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics, New York: Overlook, London: Duckworth. China: Ginkgo. ISBN   978-1-46-831102-0
  • Smith, Gary. (2016). What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Luck in Our Everyday Lives, New York: Overlook, London: Duckworth, China: Shanghai Soothe Cultural Media Co. ISBN   978-1-4683-1375-8
  • Smith, Gary. (2017). Money Machine: The Surprising Simple Power of Value Investing, New York: AMACOM, ISBN   978-0-8144-3856-5
  • Smith, Gary. (2018). The AI Delusion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN   978-01-9882-430-5
  • Smith, Gary, and Cordes, Jay (2019), The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science, (Winner of the 2020 Prose Award for Popular Science and Popular Mathematics), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN   978-01-9884-439-6
  • Smith, Gary, and Cordes, Jay (2020), The Phantom Pattern Problem: The Mirage of Big Data, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN   9780198864165
  • Highly cited papers

    Personal life

    Gary Smith is married to Margaret Hwang Smith and has six children, Joshua, Joanna, Chaska, Cory, Cameron, and Claire.

    References

    1. Smith, Gary. (2017). Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power of Value Investing, New York: AMACOM.
    2. Smith, Margaret H.; Smith, Gary. (2004). "Is a House a Good Investment?", Journal of Financial Planning, 17 (4), 67-75.
    3. Smith, Gary, and Smith, Margaret. (2008). Houseonomics, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:Pearson/Financial Times. ISBN   978-0-13-713378-9
    4. Smith, Margaret Hwang, Smith, Gary. (2006). "Bubble, Bubble, Where's the Housing Bubble?", presented at the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, March 30–31, 2006; subsequently published in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2006 (1), 1-67.
    5. Smith, Gary. (2014). "Why Are Some Home Values Resistant and Others Resilient?", International Real Estate Review, 17 (2), 223-240.
    6. Smith, Gary. (1997). "Do Statistics Test Scores Regress Toward the Mean?", Chance, 10 (4), 42–45.
    7. Smith, Gary, Smith, Joanna. (2005). "Regression to the Mean in Average Test Scores", Educational Assessment, 10 (4), 377-399.
    8. Schall, Teddy, Smith, Gary. (2000). "Do Baseball Players Regress toward the Mean?", The American Statistician, 54 (4), 231-235 (also1999 Proceedings of the Section on Statistics in Sports, American Statistical Association, 2000, 8–13).
    9. Lee, Marcus, Smith, Gary. (2002). "Regression to the Mean and Football Wagers", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15 (4), 329–342.
    10. Keil, Manfred, Smith, Gary, Smith, Margaret H. (2004). "Shrunken Earnings Predictions are Better Predictions", Applied Financial Economics, 14 (13), 937-943.
    11. Dorsey-Palmateer, Reid, Smith, Gary. (2007). "Shrunken Interest Rate Forecasts are Better Forecasts", Applied Financial Economics, 17 (6), 425-430.
    12. Baum, Gabrielle, Smith, Gary. (2015). "Great Companies: Looking for Success Secrets in All the Wrong Places", Journal of Investing, 24 (3), 61-72.
    13. Fesenmaier, Jeff, Smith, Gary. (2002). "The Nifty-Fifty Re-Revisited", Journal of Investing, 11 (3), 86–90.
    14. Smith, Gary; Steinberg, Joseph; Wertheimer, Robert. (2006). "The Next Best Thing to Knowing Someone Who is Usually Right", Journal of Wealth Management, 9 (3), 51-60.
    15. Arora, Anita, Capp, Lauren, Smith, Gary. (2008). "The Real Dogs of the Dow", The Journal of Wealth Management, 10 (4), 64-72.
    16. Smith, Gary. (2016). "A Fallacy That Will Not Die", Journal of Investing, 25 (1), 7-15.
    17. "Companies are Seldom as Good or as Bad as They Seem at the Time", Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
    18. Anderson, Jeff, Smith, Gary. (2006). "A Great Company Can be a Great Investment", Financial Analysts Journal, 62 (4), 86-93.
    19. Smith, Gary. (2016). "Great Company, Great Investment Revisited", Journal of Wealth Management, 19 (1), 34-39.
    20. Head, Alex; Smith, Gary; Wilson, Julia (2009). "Would a Stock By Any Other Ticker Smell as Sweet?", Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 49 (2), 551-561.
    21. Smith, Gary; Zurhellen, Michael. (2015). "Sunny Upside? The Relationship Between Sunshine and Stock Market Returns", Review of Economic Analysis, 7 (2), 173-183.
    22. Smith, Gary; Levere, Michael; Kurtzman, Robert. (2009). "Poker Player Behavior After Big Wins and Big Losses", Management Science, 55 (9), 1547-1555.
    23. Gilovich, T., Vallone, R., & Tversky, A. (1985). The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences. Cognitive Psychology, 17, 295–314.
    24. Smith, Gary (2003). "Horseshoe Pitchers' Hot Hands", Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10 (3), 753-758.
    25. Dorsey-Palmateer, Reid, Smith, Gary. (2004). "Bowlers' Hot Hands", The American Statistician, 58 (1), 38-45.
    26. Royer, Heather; Smith, Gary. (1998). "Can the Famous Really Postpone Death?", Social Biology, 45 (3-4), 302–305.
    27. Lee, Peter; Smith, Gary (2000). "Are Jewish Deathdates Affected by the Timing of Important Religious Events?", Social Biology, 47 (1-2), 127–134.
    28. Smith, Gary. (2004). "Asian-American Deaths Near the Harvest Moon Festival", Psychosomatic Medicine, 66 (3), 378-381.
    29. Smith, Gary. (2002). "Scared to Death?", British Medical Journal, 325 (7378), 1442-1443.
    30. Smith, Gary. (2006). "The Five Elements and Chinese-American Mortality", Health Psychology, 25 (1), 124-129.
    31. Morrison, Stilian, Smith, Gary. (2005). "Monogrammic Determinism?", Psychosomatic Medicine, 67 (5), 820-824.
    32. Smith, Gary. (2011). "Another Look at Baseball Player Initials and Longevity", Perceptual and Motor Skills, 112 (1), 211-216.
    33. Smith, Gary. (2012). "Do People Whose Names begin with "D" Really Die Young?", Death Studies, 36 (2), 182-189.
    34. Smith, Gary. (2011). "The Baseball Hall of Fame is Not the Kiss of Death", Death Studies, 35 (10), 949-955.
    35. Smith, Gary. (2011). "Birth Month is Not Related to Suicide among Major League Baseball Players", Perceptual and Motor Skills, 112 (1), 55-60.
    36. Smith, Gary. (2016). "Hurricane Names: A Bunch of Hot Air?", 2016, Weather and Climate Extremes, 12, 80-84.
    37. Smith, Gary (2018), The AI Delusion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN   978-01-9882-430-5.
    38. Smith, Gary (2020), Data Mining Fool's Gold, Journal of Information Technology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396220915600.
    Gary Smith
    Born1945 (age 7980)
    NationalityAmerican
    Academic background
    Alma mater Harvey Mudd College, Yale University
    InfluencesJames Tobin