Category Archives: Basic Statistics
NBA, Logistic Regression, and Mean Substitution
[Note: I wrote this on a flight and didn't proofread it at all. You've been warned of possibly incoherencies!] I’m currently sitting at about 32K feet above sea level on my way from Tampa International to DIA and my options … Continue reading
Filed under Basic Statistics, Imputation, R, Scraping Data, Sports
Napkin Calculations
I ride the bus to work and ride my bike home. I really enjoy the 8 mile ride on the way home — expect when it’s freezing like yesterday! I haven’t decided whether or not it’s because (1) I’m cheap … Continue reading
Filed under Basic Statistics, Rambling, Uncategorized
Are MLB Games Getting Longer?
On July 29, 2010, I had a flight from Denver to Cincinnati. About an hour before boarding, I went to ESPN’s website and found a new article by Bill Simmons, a.k.a The Sports Guy (@sportsguy33 on Twitter). The basic premise … Continue reading
Filed under Basic Statistics, ggplot2, R, Sports
(a)typical
Give a soapbox (blog) to a nonparametric statistician and you’re going to get this post or something very similar. Specifically, the latest edition of The Log Cabin concerns two summary statistics: the mean (average) and the median. Anybody who has … Continue reading
Filed under Basic Statistics, Rambling
