The hot (invisible?) hand: Can time sequence patterns of success/failure in sports be modeled as repeated random independent trials?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Yaari, Gur ^a   Eisenmann, Shmuel ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HIL Applied Medical   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASKETBALL; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; DATA ANALYSIS; FREE THROW; HOT HAND PHENOMENON; HUMAN; NON STATIONARITY; PROBABILITY; SPORTS AND SPORT RELATED PHENOMENA; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ARTIFACT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ARTIFACTS; BASKETBALL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053584392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024532     Document Type: Article

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