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" Statistical thinking in sports / "
edited by Jim Albert and Ruud H. Koning.
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BL
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1026588
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b780958
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| Title & Author
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Statistical thinking in sports /\ edited by Jim Albert and Ruud H. Koning.
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| Publication Statement
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Boca Raton, Fla. :: Chapman & Hall/CRC,, ©2007.
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xii, 298 pages ;; 25 cm
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1584888687
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: 9781584888680
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction / Jim Albert and Ruud H. Koning -- Modelling the development of world records in running / Gerard H. Kuper and Elmer Sterken -- The physics and evolution of Olympic winning performances / Ray Stefani -- Competitive balance in national European soccer competitions / Marco Haan, Ruud H. Koning, and Arjen van Witteloostuijn -- Statistical analysis of the effectiveness of the FIFA world rankings / Ian McHale and Stephen Davies -- Forecasting scores and results and testing the efficiency of the fixed-odds betting market in Scottish league football / Stephen Dobson and John Goddard -- Hitting in the pinch / Jim Albert -- Does momentum exist in a baseball game? / Rebecca J. Sela and Jeffrey S. Simonoff -- Inference about batter-pitcher matchups in baseball from small samples / Hal S. Stern and Adam Sugano -- Outcome uncertainty measures : how closely do they predict a close game? / Babatunde Buraimo, David Forrest, and Robert Simmons -- The impact of post-season play-off systems on the attendance at regular season games / Chris Bojke -- Measurement and interpretation of home advantage / Ray Stefani -- Myths in tennis / Jan Magnus and Franc Klassen -- Back to back evaluations on the gridiron / David J. Berri -- Optimal drafting in hockey pools / Amy E. Summers, Tim B. Swartz, and Richard A. Lockhart.
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"Covering an international collection of sports, Statistical Thinking in Sports provides an accessible survey of current research in statistics and sports, written by experts from a variety of arenas. Rather than relying on casual observation, they apply the rigorous tools of statistics to re-examine many of those concepts that have gone from belief to fact, based mostly on the repetition of their claims."--Jacket.
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Sports, Statistics.
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Sports-- Statistical methods.
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Sports-- Statistical methods.
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Sports.
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| Dewey Classification
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796.02/1
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GV741.S825 2007
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Albert, Jim,1953-
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Koning, Ruud H.
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