Baseball data at season, play-by-play, and pitch-by-pitch levels

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-27

  Albert, Jim ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batting; Density estimate; Lowess smoother; Pitching; Plate appearance; Streakiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649613118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2010.11889592     Document Type: Article

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