The Oxford Anthology of Statistics in Sports

Volume 1: 2000-2004
Herausgeber: Cochran, James; Albert, Jim; Bennett, Jay

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 188mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1225g
• ISBN-13: 9780198724926
• ISBN-10: 0198724926
• Artikelnr.: 47870237

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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 Statistics
* Soccer
* Soccer Introduction
* 24: Eduardo Fernandez-Cantelli and Glen Meeden: An Improved Award
System for Soccer
* 25: Ruud H. Koning: Balance in Competition in Dutch Soccer
* 26: Martin Crowder, Mark Dixon, Anthony Ledford, and Mike Robinson:
Dynamic Modelling and Prediction of English Football League Matches
for Betting
* 27: Nobuyoshi Hirotsu and Mike Wright: An Evaluation of
Characteristics of Teams in Association Football by Using a Markov
Process Model
* 28: David Forrest and Robert Simmons: Making up the Results: The Work
of the Football Pools Panel
* Other Sports
* Other Sports Introduction
* 29: Zia Zaman: Coach Markov Pulls Goalie Poisson
* 30: Don Dawson and Lonnie Magee: The National Hockey League Entry
Draft, 1969-1995
* 31: Reid Dorsey-Palmateer and Gary Smith: Bowlers' Hot Hands
* 32: Herbert K. H. Lee, Daniel L. Cork, and David J. Algranati: Did
Lennox Lewis beat Evander Holyfield?
* Miscellaneous
* Miscellaneous
* 33: Dimitris Karlis and Loannis Ntzoufras: Analysis of Sports Data By
Using Bivariate Poisson Models
* 34: Leonhard Knorr-Held: Dynamic Rating of Sports Teams
* 35: Donald A. Berry and LeeAnn Chastain: Inferences about
Testosterone Abuse among Athletes
* 36: Lisa Farrell and Michael A. Shields: Investigating the Economic
and Demographic Determinants of Sporting Participation in England
* 37: Jim Albert and Patricia Williamson: Using Model/Data Simulations
to Detect Streakiness