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Contact, Power, and Balls in Play: A Three-Rate Decomposition of Batting Average and the Disappearance of the .400 Hitter
Jim Albert
Batting average factors exactly as BA = c [h + (1-h) b], where c is the rate of avoiding a strikeout, h is the home-run rate among non-strikeout at-bats, and b is batting average o…
Batting Average as the Product of Two Rates: Skill, Luck, and the Disappearance of the .400 Hitter
Jim Albert
Batting average factors exactly as BA = c times f, where c = (AB - SO)/AB is the rate of avoiding a strikeout and f = H/(AB - SO) is the rate at which non-strikeout at-bats become…
A Statistical Model of Serve Return Impact Patterns in Professional Tennis
Stephanie A. Kovalchik, Jim Albert
The spread in the use of tracking systems in sport has made fine-grained spatiotemporal analysis a primary focus of an emerging sports analytics industry. Recently publicized track…
A Bayesian Redesign of the First Probability/Statistics Course
Jim Albert
The traditional calculus-based introduction to statistical inference consists of a semester of probability followed by a semester of frequentist inference. Cobb (2015) challenges t…
Online Statistics Teaching and Learning
Jim Albert, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Jingchen Hu
For statistics courses at all levels, teaching and learning online poses challenges in different aspects. Particular online challenges include how to effectively and interactively…
Bayesian Computing in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum
Jim Albert, Jingchen Hu
Bayesian statistics has gained great momentum since the computational developments of the 1990s. Gradually, advances in Bayesian methodology and software have made Bayesian techniq…