2 papers
math.ST2026
The German Tank Problem with Multiple Factories
Steven J. Miller, Kishan Sharma, Andrew K. Yang
During the Second World War, estimates of the number of tanks deployed by Germany were critically needed. The Allies adopted a successful statistical approach to estimate this info…
stat.AP2026
Applications of Improvements to the Pythagorean Won-Loss Expectation in Optimizing Rosters
Alexander F. Almeida, Kevin Dayaratna, Steven J. Miller +1
Bill James' Pythagorean formula has for decades done an excellent job estimating a baseball team's winning percentage from very little data: if the average runs scored and allowed…