Hot-hand effects in sports and a recursive method of computing probabilities for streaks

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1983-2001

  Martin, Donald E K ^a,b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary trials; Dependence; Higher order Markovian sequences; Hot hand; Longest run; Run probabilities; Streaks; Waiting time distributions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY;

BINARY TRIALS; DEPENDENCE; HIGHER-ORDER MARKOVIAN SEQUENCES; HOT HAND; LONGEST RUN; RUN PROBABILITIES; STREAKS; WAITING-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

RECREATION CENTERS;

EID: 27944450682     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.09.023     Document Type: Article

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