Sandlot Stats: Learning Statistics with Baseball
- ISBN-10
- 1421408678
- ISBN-13
- 9781421408675
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 592
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-11-01
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Stanley Rothman
Description
Sandlot Stats covers all the bases, including• descriptive and inferential statistics• linear regression and correlation• probability• sports betting• probability distribution functions• sampling distributions• hypothesis testing• confidence intervals• chi-square distributionSandlot Stats offers information covered in most introductory statistics books, yet is peppered with interesting facts from the history of baseball to enhance the interest of the student and make learning fun.
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