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Maa Textbooks Ser.: Teaching Statistics Using Baseball by Jim Albert (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Albert teaches undergraduate students the basics of statistics using examples and exercises from baseball as the most statistical of all sports and for which a wealth of data is easily accessible over the Internet.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAmerican Mathematical Society

ISBN-101939512166

ISBN-139781939512161

eBay Product ID (ePID)240204632

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTeaching Statistics Using Baseball

Publication Year2018

SubjectProbability & Statistics / General

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics

AuthorJim Albert

SeriesMaa Textbooks Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-931120

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number34

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal519.5

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisPresents a collection of case studies and exercises applying statistical and probabilistic thinking to the game of baseball. This book illustrates basic methods of data analysis and probability models by means of baseball statistics collected on players and teams. The idea of the book is to describe statistical thinking in a context that will be familiar and interesting to students., Teaching Statistics Using Baseball is a collection of case studies and exercises applying statistical and probabilistic thinking to the game of baseball. Baseball is the most statistical of all sports, since players are identified and evaluated by their corresponding hitting and pitching statistics. There is an active effort by people in the baseball community to learn more about baseball performance and strategy by the use of statistics. This book illustrates basic methods of data analysis and probability models by means of baseball statistics collected on players and teams. Students often have difficulty learning statistics ideas since they are explained using examples that are foreign to the students. The idea of the book is to describe statistical thinking in a context (that is, baseball) that will be familiar and interesting to students. The book is organized using a same structure as most introductory statistics texts. There are chapters on the analysis on a single batch of data, followed with chapters on comparing batches of data and relationships. There are chapters on probability models and on statistical inference. The book can be used as the framework for a one-semester introductory statistics class focused on baseball or sports. This type of class has been taught at Bowling Green State University. It may be very suitable for a statistics class for students with sports-related majors, such as sports management or sports medicine. Alternately, the book can be used as a resource for instructors who wish to infuse their present course in probability or statistics with applications from baseball. The second edition of Teaching Statistics follows the same structure as the first edition, where the case studies and exercises have been replaced by modern players and teams, and the new types of baseball data from the PitchFX system and fangraphs.com are incorporated into the text.

LC Classification NumberQA276.18.A44 2017