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Zusatztext This book would be a useful addition to any library of statistical literature to have at hand for both personal enjoyment and also for supplementing discussions in a classroom setting. Informationen zum Autor James J. Cochran earned a PhD in Statistics from the University of Cincinnati in 1997. He was a founding co-chair of Statistics Without Borders and a member of the founding committee for INFORMS Pro Bono Analytics initiative. He is a Fellow of the ASA, a recipient of the ASA's Founders Award, and a recipient of the Karl E. Peace Award for outstanding statistical contributions for the betterment of society.Jay Bennett studied at Colgate University and the University of Michigan, and later obtained a Ph.D. from Temple University. He has worked and performed research in the areas of computer science, operations research, and telecommunications. He was the editor of Statistics in Sport and the co-author (with Jim Albert) of Curve Ball.Jim Albert has authored Teaching Statistics Using Baseball, and co-authored Curve Ball (with Jay Bennett) and Analyzing Baseball with R (with Max Marchi). He is a previous editor of the Quantitative Analysis of Sports. His research interests include Bayesian inference, statistics education, and statistical thinking in sports. Klappentext A collection of a wide range of research papers on applications of statistics to various sports from journals published by the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society. Zusammenfassung A collection of a wide range of research papers on applications of statistics to various sports from journals published by the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Baseball Baseball Introduction 1: Gary A. Simon and Jeffrey S. Simonoff: Were the 1996-2000 Yankees the Best Baseball Team Ever? 2: Gary Koop: Comparing the Performance of Baseball Players 3: James J. Cochran: Career Records for All Modern Position Players Eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame 4: Jim Albert: Streakiness in Team Performance 5: Teddy Schall and Gary Smith: Do Baseball Players Regress toward the Mean? Olympics/Track and Field Introduction Olympics/Track and Field 6: Scott M. Berry: Gold Medals, Protests, and Trading Ratings: The 2002 Winter Olympics Figure Skating 7: Scott M. Berry: One Modern Man or 15 Tarzans? 8: Samuel S. Wu and Mark C. K. Yang: Evaluation of the Current Decision Rule in Figure Skating and Possible Improvements 9: Trevor F. Cox and Ryan T. Dunn: An Analysis of Decathlon Data American Football American Football Introduction 10: Scott M. Berry: College Football Rankings 11: Chris White and Scott Berry: Tiered Polychotomous Regression: Ranking NFL Quarterbacks 12: Scott M. Berry: The Cold-Foot Effect 13: David Mease: A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Approach for the Ranking of College Football Teams Independent of Victory Margins 14: Keith A. Willoughby: The Return of a Missed Field Goal in Canadian Football 15: Hal S. Stern: Statistics and the College Football Championship Cricket Cricket Introduction 16: Frank Duckworth: A Fair Result in Foul Weather 17: P. E. Allsopp and Stephen R. Clarke: Rating Teams and Analysing Outcomes in One-Day and Test Cricket 18: Ian Preston and Jonathan Thomas: Rain Rules for Limited Overs Cricket and Probabilities of Victory 19: Ian Preston and Jonathan Thomas: Batting Strategy in Limited Overs Cricket Golf Golf Introduction 20: Lawrence L. Kupper, Leonard B. Hearne, Sandra L. Martin, and Jeffrey M. Griffin: Is the USGA Golf Handicap System Equitable? 21: Scott M. Berry: A Game of Which I am Not Familiar 22: Derek R. Bingham and Tim B. Swartz: Equitable Handicapping in Golf 23: Robert Ketzscher and Trevor J. Ringrose: Exploratory Analysis of European Professional Golf Association Sta...
